Repeats Mimic Pathogen-Associated Patterns Across a Vast Evolutionary Landscape
Petr Šulc, Andrea Di Gioacchino, Alexander Solovyov, Siyu Sun, Stephen Martis, Sajid A. Marhon, Håvard T. Lindholm, Raymond Chen, Amir Hosseini, Hua Liang Jiang, Bao-Han Ly, Martin S. Taylor, Parinaz Mehdipour, Omar Ibrahim Abdel-Wahab, Nicole Rusk, , Benjamin D. Greenbaum
The paper quantifies viral mimicry in genomes across species and shows how repetitive elements maintain pathogen-like features under selection.
Cell Genomics · Sep 25, 2025Peer-reviewedSystems Biology