Kleinman writes:
So, now you claim an LTR is an ERV?
Everyone in biology claims that, you fucking moron.
That's a relief for those with HIV, they don't have to worry about herpes simplex, herpes zoster, or cytomegalovirus,... affecting them.
Which has nothing to do with what you asked.
Sure, we got your nonsensical answer that LTRs are the same as ERVs, LTRs would be ERVs if they had viral protein-coding regions.
Any remnant of a retroviral insertion is an ERV. Solo LTR's are what is left over after homologous recombination of a full length ERV. Solo LTR's are the result of mutations in full length ERVs.
But you claim you can identify proteins even when they don't exist.
They do exist in many ERVs, you fucking moron.
So the 10% of LTRs that have some remaining protein-coding regions associated with them, why isn't the LTR altered as well?
Most of them are altered, you fucking moron.
How do we tell that both mice and humans have a cytochrome c gene? How do you think that works? The two gene sequences differ by quite a bit, so how can they tell these are the same gene?
Is your claim now that the genetic sequences for LTRs never evolve?
No, you fucking moron. I have never said that. As shown by genes shared by many different vertebrates, it's possible to identify homologous sequence even when the sequence differs. These are basic, basic concepts, and you can't seem to understand them.
A long terminal repeat (LTR) is a pair of identical sequences of DNA, several hundred base pairs long, which occur in eukaryotic genomes on either end of a series of genes or pseudogenes that form a retrotransposon or an endogenous retrovirus or a retroviral provirus.
So how do you think the authors of the human genome paper were able to distinguish between LTRs from retroviruses and LTRs from retrotransposons?
Do vertebrates have retrotransposons that are not ERVs?
Wrong question. What are the LTR sequences?