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Table 5 Time to most recent common ancestor (tMRCA) mean estimates for Haplorrhini and simian foamy virus (SFV) polymerase (pol) sequences

From: Wide distribution and ancient evolutionary history of simian foamy viruses in New World primates

Branch node

tMRCA SFV pol

tMRCA simian phylogenya

Fossil estimatea

Simiiformes

39.85 (34.90–44.89)

43.47 (38.55–48.36)b

43 ± 4.5

Platyrrhini

22.31 (14.84–31.04)

24.82 (20.55–29.25)

23.5 ± 3.0

Atelidae (Ateles/Alouatta split)

10.77 (7.45–15.04)

16.13 (10.52–21.35)

NAc

Atelidae (Ateles/Lagothrix split)

10.77 (7.45–15.04)

11.25 (7.25-15.46)

NA

Ateles

6.28 (4.56–8.05)

5.07 (2.87–7.50)b

NA

Alouatta (excluding Alouatta palliatta)

5.54 (3.99–7.27)

4.94 (2.93–7.26)b

NA

Cebus (C. apella/C. xanthosternos split)

3.45 (2.61–4.35)

1.95 (0.91–3.31)b

NA

Cebus/Callithrix

5.20 (3.08–6.06)

19.95 (15.66–24.03)

NA

Pitheciiinae

8.11 (4.88–12.33)

13.69 (9.24–18.34)

NA

Saimirinae d

16.89 (10.18–24.93)

2.24 (1.05–3.73)

NA

  1. Using an alignment of 412 nt for 74 SFV taxa. Millions of years (MY) ago. Medians inferred using Bayesian methods and a relaxed molecular clock; ranges in parentheses are 95 % highest posterior density intervals
  2. aDating and fossil estimates from Perelman et al. [30]
  3. bDates used to calibrate the SFV tree
  4. cNA, not available
  5. dAnalysis excluded SFV_Sbo4587 which had an unusually long branch length