Bats, Primates, and the Evolutionary Origins and Diversification of Mammalian Gammaherpesviruses

ABSTRACT Gammaherpesviruses (γHVs) are generally considered host specific and to have codiverged with their hosts over millions of years. This tenet is challenged here by broad-scale phylogenetic analysis of two viral genes using the largest sample of mammalian γHVs to date, integrating for the firs...

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Main Authors: Marina Escalera-Zamudio, Edith Rojas-Anaya, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Blanca Taboada, Elizabeth Loza-Rubio, Maria L. Méndez-Ojeda, Carlos F. Arias, Nikolaus Osterrieder, Alex D. Greenwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-12-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01425-16