Science Daily: Modern marsupials carry "fossil" genes from deadly viruses

An article on Science Daily reported that new findings by UB biologists have shown that modern marsupials harbor a "fossil" copy of a gene that codes for filoviruses, which cause Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers and are the more lethal viruses known to humans. In addition, the research is the subject of an article distributed by the South Asian news agency ANI, and articles also appeared on the websites PhysOrg and Scientific Computing.