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Volume 27, Number 11—November 2021
Dispatch

Genetically Divergent Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Viruses in Wild Birds, Eastern China

Guimei He, Le Ming, Xiang Li, Yuhe Song, Ling Tang, Min Ma, Jie CuiComments to Author , and Tianhou WangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (G. He, L. Ming, L. Tang, M. Ma, T. Wang); CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology & Immunology, Institut Pasteur, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (X. Li, Y. Song, J. Cui)

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Phylogenetic tree of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) viruses isolated in Shanghai, China during 2020 (red text) and reference sequences from GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org). Tree was based on hemagglutinin gene segment; it was constructed using IQ-TREE (13) with 1,000 bootstrap replicates. Yellow shading indicates subclade 2.3.4.4b strains. Pink and blue shading indicate 2 sublineages of subclade 2.3.4.4b. Numbers to the left of node indicate bootstrap values. Scale bars indicate average number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure. Phylogenetic tree of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) viruses isolated in Shanghai, China during 2020 (red text) and reference sequences from GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org). Tree was based on hemagglutinin gene segment; it was constructed using IQ-TREE (13) with 1,000 bootstrap replicates. Yellow shading indicates subclade 2.3.4.4b strains. Pink and blue shading indicate 2 sublineages of subclade 2.3.4.4b. Numbers to the left of node indicate bootstrap values. Scale bars indicate average number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

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