Matt Beaumont
PhD student at the Vienna Institute of Population Genetics. Working on transposable elements and their invasion dynamics.
- Reposted by Matt BeaumontWe discovered an endogenous retrovirus that's still spreading in natural D. melanogaster populations! It was horizontally transferred from D. erecta in Central Africa, so we named it "Kuruka", which means "jump" in Swahili. Read its cool story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
