Retrovirology

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The role of recombination in the emergence of a complex and dynamic HIV epidemic

Ming Zhang1,2*, Brian Foley1, Anne-Kathrin Schultz3, Jennifer P Macke1, Ingo Bulla3, Mario Stanke3, Burkhard Morgenstern3, Bette Korber4,1 and Thomas Leitner1*

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1 Theoretical Biology & Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA

2 Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA

3 Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Abteilung Bioinformatik, Goldschmidtstraße 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

4 The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

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Retrovirology 2010, 7:25 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-7-25

Published: 23 March 2010

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Supplementary figures S1, S2, S3. Suppl. figure 1. Gap frequency and mean pairwise distance in the CRF02 alignment. Suppl. figure 2. The BC epidemic in China is unique compared to China's neighboring countries. Suppl. figure 3. The breakpoint frequency of CRF12, CRF28, and CRF29 sequences.

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