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Sequence diversity among chimpanzee simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVcpz) suggests that SIVcpzPts was derived from SIVcpzPtt through additional recombination events.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Sept 2007
Leitner Thomas, Dazza Marie-Christine, Ekwalanga Michel, Apetrei Cristian, Saragosti Sentob
Abstract excerpt
Only two of four chimpanzee subspecies (Pan troglodytes), P. troglodytes troglodytes (P.t.t.) and P. troglodytes schweinfurthii (P.t.s.), appear to carry specific simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs). We identified genomic features indicating that SIVcpzPtt and SIVcpzPts may have partly different evolutionary histories. A maximum likelihood test to discriminate between hypotheses of a common versus separate...
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