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Table 4 Time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) mean estimates for Haplorhini and simian foamy virus (SFV) polymerase (pol) and simian host sequences in million years ago

From: An expanded search for simian foamy viruses (SFV) in Brazilian New World primates identifies novel SFV lineages and host age-related infections

Branch node

TMRCA SFV pol a

TMRCA SFV pol b

TMRCA cytB b

TMRCA simian phylogenyc

Fossil estimatec

Haplorhini

46.44 (35.63–58.38)

42.38 (33.86–51.11)

42.37 (34.26–51.27)

43.47 (38.55–48.36)

43 ± 4.5

Catarrhini

28.07 (18.73–37.36)

24.33 (15.52–35.17)

24.17 (15.1–35.3)

31.56 (25.66–37.88)

29 ± 6.0

Platyrrhini

41.63 (33.25–50.22)

28.11 (15.02–45.21)

34.58 (20.43–49.7)

24.82 (20.55–29.25)

23.5 ± 3.0

Atelidae

21.94 (14.00–31.94)

15.55 (6.12–31.21)

20.55 (8.21–37.14)

16.13 (10.52–21.35)

NA

Atelinae

ND

3.4 (0.75–9.27)

ND

11.25 (7.25–15.46)

NA

Alouattinae

13.55 (8.14–20.79)

9.06 (3.64–18.47)

7.89 (2.4–17.85)

6.03 (3.74–8.57)

NA

Cebinae

7.94 (5.17–14.05)

3.89 (1.32–8.57)

13.1 (5.96–23.24)

6.00 (3.13–9.35)

NA

Saimirinae

16.87 (8.55–27.55)

3.37 (0.75–9.27)

5.4 (1.48–12.62)

ND

NA

Callitrichinae

3.37 (1.13–6.74)

3.21 (0.62–7.8)

2.79 (0.4–8.67)

8.42 (5.72–11.38)

NA

Cacajao/Chiropotes split

6.05 (2.31–11.03)

ND

ND

7.51 (4.36–10.88)

NA

  1. NA not available, ND not determined
  2. aUsing a 341-bp alignment for 31 SFV taxa. Geometric means inferred using Bayesian methods and a relaxed molecular clock; ranges in parentheses are 95 % highest posterior density intervals
  3. bSFV pol and cytB TMRCAs from previous study by our group [26] for comparison
  4. cDating and fossil estimates from Perelman et al. 2011 [31]