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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Letter

Outbreak-Associated Novel Avipoxvirus in Domestic Mallard Ducks, China

Min ZhengComments to Author , Huihui Cao, Xiankai Wei, Yong Qin, Shaoyi Ou, Baoxue Huang, Mingguo He, Zhiping Xia, Liefeng Zheng, Jun Li, and Qi Liu
Author affiliations: Guangxi Center for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning, China (M. Zheng, X. Wei, L. Zheng, J. Li, Q. Liu); Guangxi University, Nanning (H. Cao, X. Wei, Q. Liu); Baise Center for Animal Disease Control, Baise, China (Y. Qin); Daxin Center for Animal Disease Control, Daxin, China (S. Ou); Tiandong Center for Animal Disease Control, Tiandong, China (B. Huang); Xilin Center for Animal Disease Control, Xilin, China (M. He); Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, China (Z. Xia)

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Bayesian phylogeny of concatenated DNA sequences (981 bp, n = 62) from genes encoding 4b core and DNA polymerase proteins of avipoxviruses. Posterior probability values of the Bayesian trees (1,000 replicates) are indicated. Sequences obtained in the current study are highlighted with asterisks (*). Avipoxvirus clades A–C and subclades are labeled according to the nomenclature of Jarmin et al. (6) and Gyuranecz et al. (7). Reference sequences used in this analysis are chosen from the study of Gy

Figure. Bayesian phylogeny of concatenated DNA sequences (981 bp, n = 62) from genes encoding 4b core and DNA polymerase proteins of avipoxviruses. Posterior probability values of the Bayesian trees (1,000 replicates) are indicated. Asterisks (*) indicate sequences obtained in this. Avipoxvirus clades A–C and subclades are labeled according to the nomenclature of Jarmin et al. (6) and Gyuranecz et al. (7). Reference sequences used in this analysis are chosen from the study of Gyuranecz et al. (7). Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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