title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. guanzhu@email.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Guan-Zhu
authors.initials: GZ
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Worobey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D015751:Genes, pol; D016678:Genome; D008270:Madagascar; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D053150:Simian foamy virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D011443:Strepsirhini / Q000235:genetics* / Q000821:virology*