Study pushes back the origin of HIV-related retroviruses to 60 million years ago

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 16:21 in Biology & Nature

Lentiviruses cause a variety of chronic diseases in mammals —- ranging from the most notorious example of HIV/AIDS in humans to various neurological disorders in primates——yet little is known of their evolutionary history and origin.

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