| local virus extinctions following a host population bottleneck. | a small number of african green monkeys (agms) were introduced into the caribbean from west africa in the 1600s. to determine the impact of this population bottleneck on the agm virome, we used metagenomics to compare the viral nucleic acids in the plasma of 43 wild agms from west africa (gambia) to those in 44 agms from the caribbean (st. kitts and nevis). three viruses were detected in the blood of gambian primates: simian immunodeficiency virus (sivagm; in 42% of animals), a novel simian pegi ... | 2015 | 26018153 |