Liégeois Florian, Butel Christelle, Mouinga-Ondeme A., Verrier D., Motsch P., Gonzalez Jean-Paul, Peeters Martine, Rouet F., Onanga R. (2011). Full-length genome sequence of a simian immunodeficiency virus from a wild-captured sun-tailed monkey in Gabon provides evidence for a species-specific monophyletic SIVsun lineage. Aids Research and Human Retroviruses, 27 (11), p. 1237-1241. ISSN 0889-2229.
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Full-length genome sequence of a simian immunodeficiency virus from a wild-captured sun-tailed monkey in Gabon provides evidence for a species-specific monophyletic SIVsun lineage
Liégeois Florian, Butel Christelle, Mouinga-Ondeme A., Verrier D., Motsch P., Gonzalez Jean-Paul, Peeters Martine, Rouet F., Onanga R.
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Aids Research and Human Retroviruses, 2011,
27 (11), p. 1237-1241 ISSN 0889-2229
Since the first characterization of SIVsun (L14 strain) from a sun-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus solatus) in Gabon in 1999, no further information exists about the evolutionary history and geographic distribution of this lentivirus. Here, we report the full-length molecular characterization of a second SIVsun virus (SIVsunK08) naturally infecting a wild-caught sun-tailed monkey. The SIVsunK08 strain was most closely related to SIVsunL14 and clustered with members of the SIVmnd-1/SIVlhoest group. SIVsunK08 shared identical functional motifs in the LTR, Gag and Env proteins with SIVsunL14. Our data indicate that C. solatus is naturally infected with a monophyletic SIVsun strain.
