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Molecular phylogeny and dissemination of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I viewed within the context of primate evolution and human migration.
Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) - 1 Jan 1995
Yanagihara R, Saitou N, Nerurkar V R, Song K J, Bastian I, Franchini G, Gajdusek D C
Abstract excerpt
A renewed interest in the emergence and evolution of the primate T-cell lymphotropic viruses has followed the discovery of genetically distinct variants of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) in Melanesia and Australia. Phylogenetic trees based on selected regions of the gag, pol, env and pX genes of HTLV-I from widely separated geographic regions and of simian T-cell lymphotropic virus type I...
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