Co-option (biology)
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Co-option (biology)
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The term co-option refers to the capacity of intracellular parasites to use host-cell proteins to complete their vital cycle. Viruses use this mechanism, as their genome is small. It is also used in a different sense to refer to characters that have been exapted.
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Function of trait, shifted by evolution
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-option_(biology)
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2023-10-06T15:48:18Z
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