Endogenous retroviruses of non-avian/mammalian vertebrates illuminate diversity and deep history of retroviruses

• Xiaoyu Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Huayao Zhao,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Zhen Gong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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• Guan-Zhu Han

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guanzhu@email.arizona.edu

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8352-7726

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