Phylogenetic Incongruence among Oncogenic Genital Alpha Human Papillomaviruses

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The human papillomaviruses (HPVs) have long been thought to follow a monophyletic pattern of evolution with little if any evidence for recombination between genomes. On the basis of this model, both oncogenicity and tissue tropism appear to have evolved once. Still, no systematic statistical analyses have shown whether monophyly is the rule across all HPV open reading frames (ORFs). We conducted a taxonomic...

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