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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2009 Oct 14;134(1-2):68. doi: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2009.10.011

Table 1.

Estimates of evolutionary rates from FIV and HIV-1 studies

Lentivirus and region Rate estimate (×10−3 substitutions per site per year) Reference
FIV-Fca V1-V2 env 3.4 (Greene et al., 1993)
FIV-Fca V3-V6 env 3.1–6.6§ (Hayward, 2009)
FIV-Pco V4-V5 env 1–3 (Biek et al., 2003)
HIV-1 gp160 env 2.4 (Korber et al., 2000)
HIV-1 C2-V5 10 (Shankarappa et al., 1999)
HIV-1 V3 env 6.7 (Leitner and Albert, 1999)
HIV-1 V3 env 8.7 (Zhang et al., 1997)
§

95 % highest posterior density (HPD) for each cat is 2.2–4.1, 5.0–8.4, and 3.3–9.2