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SUBMITTER: Rethwilm A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3814592 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rethwilm Axel A Bodem Jochen J
Viruses 20130925 10
Recent evidence indicates that foamy viruses (FVs) are the oldest retroviruses (RVs) that we know and coevolved with their hosts for several hundred million years. This coevolution may have contributed to the non-pathogenicity of FVs, an important factor in development of foamy viral vectors in gene therapy. However, various questions on the molecular evolution of FVs remain still unanswered. The analysis of the spectrum of animal species infected by exogenous FVs or harboring endogenous FV elem ...[more]