A near-full-length HIV-1 genome from 1966 recovered from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue
S. Gryseels, T. D. Watts, J.-M. M. Kabongo, B. B. Larsen, P. Lemey, J.-J. Muyembe-Tamfum, D. E. Teuwen, M. Worobey
The paper recovers a near-full-length HIV-1 genome from 1966, validating molecular clock estimates and providing direct genomic evidence for HIV-1 evolution in the 1960s.
bioRxiv · Jul 1, 2019Evolutionary Biology