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Volume 7, Number 4—August 2001
THEME ISSUE
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus

The Relationships between West Nile and Kunjin Viruses

Jacqueline H. Scherret*, Michael Poidinger†, John S. Mackenzie*, Annette K. Broom‡, Vincent Deubel§, W. Ian Lipkin¶, Thomas Briese¶, Ernest A. Gould#, and Roy A. Hall*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; †Bioinformatics Inc., Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia; ‡University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia; §Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ¶University of California, Irvine, California, USA; #Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, Oxford, England

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Figure 1

Phylogenetic tree constructed by the neighbor-joining algorithm based on E gene nucleic acid sequence data. Numbers above branches indicate average percentage nucleotide similarity between limbs, while the values in italics indicate the percentage bootstrap confidence levels. Isolates highlighted in bold are sequences obtained in this study. Dendrogram outgrouped with the Japanese encephalitis isolate, JaOArS982 (30; GenBank Accession Number M18370).

Figure 1. . Phylogenetic tree constructed by the neighbor-joining algorithm based on E gene nucleic acid sequence data. Numbers above branches indicate average percentage nucleotide similarity between limbs, while the values in italics indicate the percentage bootstrap confidence levels. Isolates highlighted in bold are sequences obtained in this study. Dendrogram outgrouped with the Japanese encephalitis isolate, JaOArS982 (30; GenBank Accession Number M18370).

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