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An endogenous foamy virus in the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis).


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.

SUBMITTER: Han GZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3416287 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An endogenous foamy virus in the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis).

Han Guan-Zhu GZ   Worobey Michael M  

Journal of virology 20120509 14


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. ...[more]

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