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Volume 21, Number 12—December 2015
Dispatch

Tembusu-Related Flavivirus in Ducks, Thailand

Aunyaratana Thontiravong, Patchareeporn Ninvilai, Wikanda Tunterak, Nutthawan Nonthabenjawan, Supassma Chaiyavong, Kingkarn Angkabkingkaew, Chatthapon Mungkundar, Woranuch Phuengpho, Kanisak Oraveerakul, and Alongkorn AmonsinComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (A. Thontiravong, P. Ninvilai, W. Tunterak, N. Nonthabenjawan, S. Chaiyavong, K. Oraveerakul, A. Amonsin); Animal Health and Technical Service Office, Bangkok (P. Ninvilai, K. Angkabkingkaew, C. Mungkundar, W. Phuengpho)

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic analysis of the nucleotide sequences of polyprotein gene (10,278 bp) (A), partial envelope gene (361 bp) (B), and partial nonstructural 5 gene (900 bp) (C) of duck Tembusu viruses (DTMUVs) from ducks in Thailand and selected reference strains of flaviviruses. The nucleotide sequences were aligned by using Muscle version 3.6 (4). The phylogenetic trees were constructed in MEGA version 6.0 by using the neighbor-joining algorithm with the Kimura-2 parameter model applied to 1,000 repli

Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of the nucleotide sequences of polyprotein gene (10,278 bp) (A), partial envelope gene (361 bp) (B), and partial nonstructural 5 gene (900 bp) (C) of duck Tembusu viruses (DTMUVs) from ducks in Thailand and selected reference strains of flaviviruses. The nucleotide sequences were aligned by using Muscle version 3.6 (4). The phylogenetic trees were constructed in MEGA version 6.0 by using the neighbor-joining algorithm with the Kimura-2 parameter model applied to 1,000 replications of bootstrap (5). Circle indicates Thai DTMUVs. Similar results were observed when applying the maximum-likelihood algorithm (Technical Appendix

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