yeast parasite?

[francis at NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV]

> From LEIBOWITZ at ocelot.rutgers.edu Wed Oct 16 17:42:33 1996

> Yes Diane, there are viruses of yeast.
> 
> Cytoplasmically inherited viruses include a raft of dsRNA genome viruses,
> reviewed in several places in 1990-92 by Reed B. Wickner.  Also, yeast has
> retrotransposons that can exist transiently in intracellular virus-like
> particles, and prions (recently reviewed by Wickner).

see Reed's www page at:

http://www.nih.gov/sigs/yeast/wickner.html

and references therein.


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> Sincerely,
> Mike Leibowitz
> UMDNJ-RW Johnson Medical School