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Evolution of the Old World Arenaviridae and their rodent hosts: generalized host-transfer or association by descent?
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2001
Hugot J P, Gonzalez J P, Denys C
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Ten scenarios optimizing the number of cospeciation events between the phylogenies of the Old World Arenaviridae (OWA) and their murine hosts are tested while attempting to answer the following questions. Does the coevolutionary model explain their respective distribution? What kind of evolutionary events could have most frequently contributed to the horizontal and/or vertical transmission of the OWA? How to...
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