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Volume 15, Number 5—May 2009
Letter

Bovine Kobuvirus in Europe

Gábor ReuterComments to Author  and László Egyed
Author affiliations: ÁNTSZ Regional Institute of State Public Health Service, Pécs, Hungary (G. Reuter); Veterinary Medical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (L. Egyed)

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Phylogenetic tree of bovine kobuvirus (kobuvirus/bovine/Aba-Z20/2002/Hungary, in boldface) based on the 455-nt fragment of the kobuvirus 3D regions. The phylogenetic tree was constructed by using the neighbor-joining clustering method with distance calculation and the maximum composite likelihood correction for evolutionary rate with help of MEGA version 4.1 software (10). Bootstrap values (based on 1,000 replicates) are given for each node if >50%. Reference strains were obtained from GenBan

Figure. Phylogenetic tree of bovine kobuvirus (kobuvirus/bovine/Aba-Z20/2002/Hungary, in boldface) based on the 455-nt fragment of the kobuvirus 3D regions. The phylogenetic tree was constructed by using the neighbor-joining clustering method with distance calculation and the maximum composite likelihood correction for evolutionary rate with help of MEGA version 4.1 software (10). Bootstrap values (based on 1,000 replicates) are given for each node if >50%. Reference strains were obtained from GenBank. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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