Article
Mosaic genome structure of simian immunodeficiency virus from west African green monkeys.
The EMBO journal - 15 Jun 1994
Jin M J, Hui H, Robertson D L, Müller M C, Barré-Sinoussi F, Hirsch V M, Allan J S, Shaw G M, Sharp P M, Hahn B H
Abstract excerpt
Elucidation of the phylogenetic origins of simian and human immunodeficiency viruses (SIV and HIV) is fundamental to the understanding of HIV pathogenesis and the spread of AIDS worldwide. In this study, we molecularly characterized multiple SIVAGM isolates from four different African green monke...
Topics
- Africa, Western
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Genes, env
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Viral
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Proviruses
- RNA, Viral
- Recombination, Genetic