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Volume 14, Number 12—December 2008
Research

Genetic Characterization of Toggenburg Orbivirus, a New Bluetongue Virus, from Goats, Switzerland

Martin A. HofmannComments to Author , Sandra Renzullo, Markus Mader, Valérie Chaignat, Gabriella Worwa, and Barbara Thuer
Author affiliations: Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis, Mittelhaeusern, Switzerland

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic analysis of Toggenburg orbivirus (TOV) (shaded region) genome segment 2 by ClustalW alignment (16) and subsequent neighbor-joining tree construction by MEGA version 4 software (15). GenBank accession numbers are indicated for all orbivirus sequences used to construct dendrogram. BTV, bluetongue virus; EHDV, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus; AHSV, African horse sickness virus. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of Toggenburg orbivirus (TOV) (shaded region) genome segment 2 by ClustalW alignment (16) and subsequent neighbor-joining tree construction by MEGA version 4 software (15). GenBank accession numbers are indicated for all orbivirus sequences used to construct dendrogram. BTV, bluetongue virus; EHDV, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus; AHSV, African horse sickness virus. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

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