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. 1980 Jan;33(1):522–530. doi: 10.1128/jvi.33.1.522-530.1980

Immunological relationships of an endogenous guinea pig retrovirus with prototype mammalian type B and type D retroviruses.

J E Dahlberg, S R Tronick, S A Aaronson
PMCID: PMC288566  PMID: 6154150

Abstract

A retrovirus endogenous to guinea pig cells was earlier shown to be morphologically similar to type B and type D prototype retroviruses. Molecular hybridization techniques were used to show that guinea pig virus nucleotide sequences are endogenous to both domestic (Cavia porcellus) and indigenous (Cavia aperea) guinea pigs, but cannot be detected in the DNA of either other hystricomorph rodents or other mammals tested. Using radioimmunological techniques designed to detect interspecies relationships, the major internal polypeptide of guinea pig virus (p26) was shown to share three different sets of interspecies antigenic determinants with squirrel monkey retrovirus, viper retrovirus, and mouse mammary tumor virus. Thus, guinea pig virus appears to provide an evolutionary link between type B and D retroviruses.

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