| Literature DB >> 25717107 |
Marina Escalera-Zamudio1, M Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza2, Felix Heeger3, Elizabeth Loza-Rubio4, Edith Rojas-Anaya4, Maria L Méndez-Ojeda5, Blanca Taboada6, Camila J Mazzoni7, Carlos F Arias6, Alex D Greenwood1.
Abstract
The Desmodus rotundus endogenous betaretrovirus (DrERV) is fixed in the vampire bat D. rotundus population and in other phyllostomid bats but is not present in all species from this family. DrERV is not phylogenetically related to Old World bat betaretroviruses but to betaretroviruses from rodents and New World primates, suggesting recent cross-species transmission. A recent integration age estimation of the provirus in some taxa indicates that an exogenous counterpart might have been in recent circulation.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25717107 PMCID: PMC4403488 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03452-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103