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Genetic diversity in the feline leukemia virus gag gene.
Virus research - 2 Jun 2015
Kawamura Maki, Watanabe Shinya, Odahara Yuka, Nakagawa So, Endo Yasuyuki, Tsujimoto Hajime, Nishigaki Kazuo
Abstract excerpt
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) belongs to the Gammaretrovirus genus and is horizontally transmitted among cats. FeLV is known to undergo recombination with endogenous retroviruses already present in the host during FeLV-subgroup A infection. Such recombinant FeLVs, designated FeLV-subgroup B or FeLV-subgroup D, can be generated by transduced endogenous retroviral env sequences encoding the viral envelope. These...
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