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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2016-12-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01425-16 |