Dating the age of the SIV lineages that gave rise to HIV-1 and HIV-2.

Great strides have been made in understanding the evolutionary history of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and the zoonoses that gave rise to HIV-1 and HIV-2. What remains unknown is how long these SIVs had been circulating in non-human primates before the transmissions to humans. Here, we use re...

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Main Authors: Joel O Wertheim, Michael Worobey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19412344/pdf/?tool=EBI

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