Article
Molecular evolution of human T-cell leukemia virus.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Dec 1990
Ina Y, Gojobori T
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic trees for the human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) and its related viruses were constructed by use of nucleotide sequences of the long terminal repeat (LTR) and the tax gene. The trees showed that the viruses diverged from a common ancestral virus and that they are classified into two groups whose hosts are either primates or bovines. However, the topology of the trees for the viruses differed...
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