An endogenous foamy virus in the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) |
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Authors: | Han Guan-Zhu Worobey Michael |
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Institution: | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. guanzhu@email.arizona.edu |
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Abstract: | We report the discovery and analysis of an endogenous foamy virus (PSFVaye) within the genome of the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a strepsirrhine primate from Madagascar. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that PSFVaye is divergent from all known simian foamy viruses, suggesting an association between foamy viruses and primates since the haplorrhine-strepsirrhine split. The discovery of PSFVaye indicates that primate foamy virus might be more broadly distributed than previously thought. |
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