The iconic Australian marsupial, the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), has suffered dramatic
population declines as a result of habitat loss and fragmentation, disease, vehicle collision …

Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) serve as markers of ancient viral infections and provide
invaluable insight into host and viral evolution. ERVs have been exapted to assist in …

Summary Antisense Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) guide silencing of established
transposons during germline development, and sense piRNAs drive ping-pong amplification …

Repeated retroviral infections of vertebrate germlines have made endogenous retroviruses
ubiquitous features of mammalian genomes. However, millions of years of evolution obscure …

Koala populations are currently in rapid decline across Australia, with infectious diseases
being a contributing cause. The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is a gammaretrovirus present in …

Purpose. Koala retrovirus (KoRV) is undergoing endogenization into the genome of koalas
in Australia, providing an opportunity to assess the effect of retrovirus infection on the health …

The recent acquisition of a novel retrovirus (KoRV) by koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) has
created new opportunities for retroviral research and new challenges for koala conservation …

Chlamydial disease control is increasingly utilised as a management tool to stabilise
declining koala populations, and yet we have a limited understanding of the factors that …

Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are integrated into host DNA as the result of ancient germ
line infections, primarily by extinct exogenous retroviruses. Thus, vertebrates' genomes …

Koala retrovirus (KoRV) subtype A (KoRV-A) is currently in transition from exogenous virus
to endogenous viral element, providing an ideal system to elucidate retroviral–host …