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These results indicate that efficiency of B cell priming, and not complexities in Env-guided affinity maturation, is the primary obstacle to V2 apex bNAb elicitation in SHIV-infected macaques and identify specific HIV-1 Envs to advance as novel vaccine platforms. 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