Novel SARS-like Betacoronaviruses in Bats, China, 2011
Li Yang
1, Zhiqiang Wu
1, Xianwen Ren
1, Fan Yang
1, Guimei He, Junpeng Zhang, Jie Dong, Lilian Sun, Yafang Zhu, Jiang Du, Shuyi Zhang, and Qi Jin
Author affiliations: Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Beijing, China (L. Yang, Z. Wu, X. Ren, F. Yang, J. Dong, L. Sun, Y. Zhu, J. Du, Q. Jin); Institute of Pathogen Biology, Beijing (L. Yang, Z. Wu, X. Ren, F. Yang, J. Dong, L. Sun, Y. Zhu, J. Du, Q. Jin); East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (G. He, J. Zhang, S. Zhang)
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Figure 2. . Phylogenetic tree of novel betacoronaviruses based on the deduced amino acid sequence of spike protein. SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome; CoV, coronavirus; HCoV, human CoV; BtCoV, bat CoV; BWCoV, beluga whale CoV; IBV, avian infectious bronchitis. Scale bar indicates genetic distance estimated by using WAG+G+I+F model implemented in MEGA5 (www.megasoftware.net).
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