A speculative proposal that dinosaur-borne viruses transferred to surviving mammals at the K-Pg boundary and triggered rapid speciation through synchronous genome insertions.
(2012) Viral evolution in deep time: lentiviruses and mammals
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Viral Hitchhikers and Macroevolution: A Novel Hypothesis on Explosive Speciation
A speculative proposal that dinosaur-borne viruses transferred to surviving mammals at the K-Pg boundary and triggered rapid speciation through synchronous genome insertions.