A proviral puzzle with a prosimian twist

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¹ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, MA 01772, USA. wjohnson@hms.harvard.edu

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Welkin E Johnson. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008.

. 2008 Dec 23;105(51):20051-2.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.0811419106. Epub 2008 Dec 17.

¹ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, MA 01772, USA. wjohnson@hms.harvard.edu

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A transitional endogenous lentivirus from the genome of a basal primate and implications for lentivirus evolution.
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