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Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014
Research

Molecular Characterization of Cryptically Circulating Rabies Virus from Ferret Badgers, Taiwan

Hue-Ying Chiou, Chia-Hung Hsieh, Chian-Ren Jeng, Fang-Tse Chan, Hurng-Yi Wang, and Victor Fei PangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (H.-Y. Chiou, C.-H. Hsieh, C.-R. Jeng, H.-Y. Wang, V.F. Pang); Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Nantou County, Taiwan, Republic of China (F.-T. Chan)

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic relationships of 27 rabies virus (RABV) genomes constructed by maximum-likelihood method. Numbers close to the nodes were from 1,000 bootstrap replications. The tree was rooted with RABV from bats and raccoons. Three major groups, Asia, Cosmopolitan, and India, are strongly supported, as indicated (17). There are 4 major lineages within the group from Asia, including previously recognized China I, China II (16), Southeast Asia, and RABV from Taiwan ferret badgers (TWFB). RABVs deriv

Figure 2. Phylogenetic relationships of 27 rabies virus (RABV) genomes constructed by maximum-likelihood methodNumbers close to the nodes were from 1,000 bootstrap replicationsThe tree was rooted with RABV from bats and raccoonsThree major groups, Asia, Cosmopolitan, and India, are strongly supported, as indicated (17)There are 4 major lineages within the group from Asia, including previously recognized China I, China II (16), Southeast Asia, and RABV from Taiwan ferret badgers (TWFB)RABVs derived from Chinese ferret badgers (CNFB) are clustered with China I, indicating that RABVs of TWFB and CNFB are of independent originScale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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