id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-291946-kq0rsuxj Etienne, Lucie The Mongoose, the Pheasant, the Pox, and the Retrovirus 2013-08-27 .txt text/plain 2911 132 46 The genomes of two species of mongooses and an egg-laying mammal called an echidna show that a virus currently present in poultry, the reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV), is actually of ancient exotic mammalian origin. The genomes of two species of mongooses and an egg-laying mammal called an echidna show that a virus currently present in poultry, the reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV), is actually of ancient exotic mammalian origin. Although REV may still exist somewhere in a mammalian host, its modern form links an 8 million-year-old infection of the ancestor of a mongoose to a virus that now is circulating in wild birds through malaria studies in the mid-20 th century. Although REV may still exist somewhere in a mammalian host, its modern form links an 8 million-year-old infection of the ancestor of a mongoose to a virus that now is circulating in wild birds through malaria studies in the mid-20 th century. ./cache/cord-291946-kq0rsuxj.txt ./txt/cord-291946-kq0rsuxj.txt