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Genes related to the nucleic acid of an endogenous domestic cat C-type virus (RD114) are found in the cellular DNA of anthropoid primates while many members of the cat family Felidae lack these sequences. Endogenous viruses from primates are thus concluded to have infected and become part of the germ line of an evolutionary distant group, the ancestors of the domestic cat.
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Benveniste, R., Todaro, G. Evolution of C-type viral genes: inheritance of exogenously acquired viral genes. Nature 252, 456–459 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252456a0
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