Reply to commentary by D. Elleder and J. Hejnar on the article “Avian sarcoma and leukosis virus gag gene in the Anser anser domesticus genome” published in Genetics and Molecular Research 14 (4): 14379-14386 to the letter published in Genet. Mol. Res. 15 (1): gmr.15014956
Dear Editor, I should thank to the questioner and these questions are very valuable. Here, I want to give some opinions for it. In letter, questioner mentions that the gag sequences we got are too homologous with chicken sequence, unlike other Galliformes birds. Actually, endogenous avian sarcoma and leukosis virus (enASLV) sequences are variable in the Galliformes birds, and geese have split with chicken for a long time.