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Overlapping reading frames in influenza viruses allow two proteins to be coded into the same RNA segment, but only by what appears to me as an enormous coincidence. the analogy I came up with is that overlapping reading frames are like taking a book, and moving every space one character to the right while expecting a different story to emerge. Dog bites man would become dogb itesm an. I feel like I'm missing something here, since neither dogb nor itesm are words.