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. 2017 Aug;25:23–27. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2017.06.006

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Three key hypotheses to elucidate the ultimate evolutionary origins of Retroviridae: (a) Retroviridae is sister to Metaviridae, (b) Retroviridae originates from a paraphyletic Metaviridae, or (c) Metaviridae originates from a paraphyletic Retroviridae.