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Evolutionary mechanisms and population dynamics of the third variable envelope region of HIV within single hosts.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Feb 1997
Yamaguchi Y, Gojobori T
Abstract excerpt
Clonal diversifications of HIV virus were monitored by periodic samplings on each of the six patients with regard to 183- to 335-bp segments of the env gene, which invariably included the functionally critical V3 region. Subsequently, six individual phylogenetic trees of viral variants were constructed. It was found that at one time or another during the course of disease progression, viral variants were...
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