Molecular evolution of the human immunodeficiency and related viruses.
Molecular evolution of the human immunodeficiency and related viruses.
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DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040495
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发表时间:
1988-05
影响因子:
10.7
通讯作者:
S. Yokoyama;L. Chung;T. Gojobori
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作者:
S. Yokoyama;L. Chung;T. Gojobori
A phylogenetic tree for different human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 (HIV1) and type 2 (HIV2), lentiviruses, and oncoviruses has been constructed by comparing the nucleotide sequences of the two regions of their pol genes that encode the reverse transcriptase and endonuclease/integrase. The analysis indicates that (1) different HIV1 strains form one cluster and their common ancestor diverged from the ancestor of HIV2, (2) the common ancestor of the HIV1 and HIV2 strains diverged from that of the lentivirus, and (3) the common ancestor of the lentivirus group and that of the oncoviruses diverged earlier than that. Divergence between the HIV1 and HIV2 strains seems to have occurred greater than 200 years ago, implying that AIDS has existed for a long time but went undetected. Furthermore, nonsynonymous changes are occurring uniformly through time, whereas synonymous changes are more variable among different lineages.