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Identification, characterization and comparative genomics of chimpanzee endogenous retroviruses

Nalini Polavarapu, Nathan J Bowen and John F McDonald*

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School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0230, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R51 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-6-r51

Published: 28 June 2006

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Additional data file 1:

A description of the nine CERV families for which human orthologues were not identified previously

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Additional data file 2:

The distances (corrected 'p' using Jukes-Cantor model) appear next to each of the branches. RT sequences from species other than chimp, listed in Table 1, are included for comparison. The outgroup is class III element HFV (human foamy virus; see Table 1 and Additional data file 4).

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Additional data file 3:

The distances (corrected 'p' using Jukes-Cantor model) appear next to each of the branches. RT sequences from species other than chimp, listed in Table 1, are included for comparison. The outgroup is class I element from CERV 1/PTERV1 family (see Table 2 and Additional data file 2).

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Additional data file 4:

The distances (corrected 'p' using Jukes-Cantor model) appear next to each of the branches. RT sequences from species other than chimp, listed in Table 1, are included for comparison. The outgroup is class I element BaEV (baboon endogenous retrovirus; see Table 1 and Additional data file 2).

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Additional data file 5:

Bootstrap values are shown on the tree. The average pairwise distances (corrected 'p' using Jukes-Cantor model) for each subfamily and the estimated ages are shown.

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Additional data file 6:

Bootstrap values are shown in the tree. The average pairwise distances (corrected 'p' using Jukes-Cantor model) for each subfamily and the estimated ages are shown.

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