An endogenous foamy virus in the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis).

ABSTRACT: We report the discovery and analysis of an endogenous foamy virus (PSFVaye) within the genome of the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a strepsirrhine primate from Madagascar. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that PSFVaye is divergent from all known simian foamy viruses, suggesting an association between foamy viruses and primates since the haplorrhine-strepsirrhine split. The discovery of PSFVaye indicates that primate foamy virus might be more broadly distributed than previously thought.

SUBMITTER: Han GZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3416287 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature