Island Biogeography Reveals the Deep History of SIV.

The article discusses research investigating the age of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in African nonhuman primates. An overview of the team's research methodology which included SIV serological tests and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), followed by a phylogenetic analysis, of bushmeat specimens from monkeys on the isolated island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea is presented.