Koala retrovirus

Koala retrovirus (KoRV) is a retrovirus that is present in many populations of koalas. It has been implicated as the agent of Koala Immune Deficiency Syndrome (KIDS), an AIDS-like immunodeficiency that leaves infected koalas more susceptible to infectious disease and cancers. The virus is thought to be a recently introduced exogenous virus that is also integrating into the koala genome (becoming endogenous). Thus the virus can transmit both horizontally (from animal to animal in the classic sense) and vertically (from parent to offspring as a gene). The horizontal modes of transmission are not well defined but are thought to require close contact.

Koala retrovirus was initially described as a novel endogenous retrovirus found within the koala genome and in tissues as free virions. Viral DNA sequence analysis showed intact open reading frames and pathogenic DNA motifs strongly suggesting that KoRV is an active replicating endogenous virus that can also produce infectious virions. The analysis also showed that KoRV was closely related to the highly pathogenic Gibbon Ape Leukemia Virus (GALV). The epidemiology of how koalas and gibbons came to share such similar viruses remains unclear.

KORV

KORV (93.5 FM) is an American radio station licensed to Lakeview, Oregon, USA. The station is currently owned by Lake County Radio LLC and features country music from Cumulus' "Real Country" and a local morning show hosted by Bob Pardee. Sale to Lake County Radio LLC was approved by the FCC on June 5, 2012 and the closing took place on June 8, 2012. The sale included the studio and transmitter site of the former KQIK, which is now silent. Woodrow Michael Warren, owner of KLCR, also in Lakeview, had attempted to purchase the station, but the application was withdrawn on January 12, 2012 when Warren defaulted on the purchase. While Warren was attempting to purchase the station it was briefly KWTR, but it never operated with that call sign. The KWTR call sign had been used by Warren for a station in Texas, that station license was cancelled by the FCC on May 16, 2011. Lake County Radio LLC is owned by Linc & Joan Reed-Nickerson. The Reed-Nickerson's also own Harney County Radio LLC licensee of KBNH and KORC in Burns, OR.