Fig. 3

Timeline of deltaretrovirus evolution. A time-calibrated phylogeny of selected mammalian species were obtained from TIMETREE website (http://www.timetree.org/). Occurrence of either endogenous or exogenous deltaretroviruses in the species is indicated next to the species names. Estimated endogenization time intervals are deduced from positivity/negativity of related species for particular ERV integrations. Dashed line indicates the minimal time estimate of deltaretrovirus origin. Closed circles on nodes represent the existence of taxon rank names