The koala retrovirus: lessons learned from the koala genome. In Proceedings of the Second Koala Retrovirus Workshop, ed. D. E. Alquezar-Planas, D. P. Higgins, C. L. Singleton, and A. D. Greenwood

The establishment of the Koala Genome Consortium in 2013 culminated publication first fully assembled koala genome. An international initiative involving 29 institutes across globe, has led to a much greater understanding biology including knowledge on gene families putatively associated with detoxification eucalypt leaves and species’ ability taste smell plant secondary metabolites. Similarly, genomic resource enabled comparative assessments facilitating immunogenomics, population analysis, and, for time, genome-wide retrovirus (KoRV). This summary outlines how genome increased our capacity understand genetics KoRV—from deeper KoRV viral subtypes their recombinants preferences integration host