Talk:Co-option (biology)

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 * Comment The Wiki is not a dictionary WP:NOT. You may wish to change the articles title too "Co-option in Biology" or perhaps "Co-option (Biology)" to avoid possible problems with ambiguities. I hope my comment has been received as it has been suggested. Good luck to you. --User:Warrior777 (talk) 18:45, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Right now the article says this:

"The term co-option refers to the capacity of intracellular parasites to use host-cell proteins to complete their vital cycle.[citation needed] Viruses use this mechanism, as their genome is small."

This doesn't appear to be true. The cited reference (the virology paper) doesn't even use the term co-option.

I am turning the page into a redirect to exaptation which has an explanation of the term in the context of evolutionary biology. ShiveryPeaks (talk) 11:51, 7 July 2024 (UTC)