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Comparative Study
. 1979 Jan;29(1):395-400.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.29.1.395-400.1979.

Gibbon ape leukemia virus-Hall's Island: new strain of gibbon ape leukemia virus

M S Reitz Jr, F wong-Staal, W A Haseltine, D G Kleid, C D Trainor, R E Gallagher, R C Gallo
Comparative Study

Gibbon ape leukemia virus-Hall's Island: new strain of gibbon ape leukemia virus

M S Reitz Jr et al. J Virol. 1979 Jan.

Abstract

Gibbon ape leukemia virus-Hall's Island (GaLV-H), a type C virus related to previous isolates of GaLV and simian sarcoma virus, was isolated from a gibbon ape with lymphocytic leukemia from a small colony of free-ranging gibbon apes on Hall's Island near Bermuda. We show here by molecular hybridization experiments that GaLV-H is approximately 60% related to three previous isolates of GaLV (GaLV-SF, GaLV-SEATO, and GaLV-Br) and is less closely related to simian sarcoma virus. The oligopyrimidine pattern of a transcript of the terminal 135 +/- 5 nucleotides of the viral RNA of GaLV-H is similar to that of GALV-Br but distinct from that of GaLV-SF and simian sarcoma virus. GaLV-H thus represents a fifth distinct strain of the infectious primate type C viruses, which among the previously described isolates of GaLV is most closely related to GaLV-Br.

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