Kent scientists reveal how world's smallest DNA virus evolved in rare parakeets - News, press and media - University of Kent

Kent scientists reveal how world's smallest DNA virus evolved in rare parakeets - News, press and media - University of Kent

But a team led by Dr Jim Groombridge, of the University's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), has been able to make use of its archive of DNA samples from Mauritius parakeets, built up over many years, to identify how the world's smallest DNA circoviruses have evolved to cause the spread of the disease.