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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 17, Pages 9943-9948Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01385-13
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports of Japan
- Bio-Oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution
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We identified a new subgroup of koala retrovirus (KoRV), named KoRV-J, which utilizes thiamine transport protein 1 as a receptor instead of the Pit-1 receptor used by KoRV (KoRV-A). By subgroup-specific PCR, KoRV-J and KoRV-A were detected in 67.5 and 100% of koalas originating from koalas from northern Australia, respectively. Altogether, our results indicate that the invasion of the koala population by KoRV-J may have occurred more recently than invasion by KoRV-A.
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