{
  "id": 17303948,
  "title": "Koala retrovirus dynamics in the Snowy Monaro, NSW",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/koala-retrovirus-dynamics-in-the-snowy-monaro-nsw",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-30T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.29.762995v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Koala Retrovirus (KoRV) is in transition from exogenous virus to endogenous element and shows distinct profiles between northern and southern koala populations. Northern animals carry high proviral copy numbers of endogenous KoRV-A and a range of exogenous subtypes, while southern koalas instead generally only possess degraded and recombinant versions of the virus. In this study we investigated…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}