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From: Large-scale lagovirus disease outbreaks in European brown hares (Lepus europaeus) in France caused by RHDV2 strains spatially shared with rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Figure 2

Phylogenetic tree derived for VP60 nucleotide sequences of 381 rabbit lagoviruses including 15 French RHDV2. The tree was obtained using the Neighbor-Joining method and was drawn to a scale of nucleotide substitutions per site. The percentages greater than 70% of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1000 replicates) are given in italics before each major branch node. The European brown hare syndrome virus (EBHSV) strain GD (Z69620) was used as an outgroup to root the tree. The RHDV2 strains characterized in hares are underlined. The 15 French RHDV2 strains characterized in this study (in rabbits and hares) are in bold and their names are followed by the number (for hares) or the letter (for rabbits) mentioned in the Figure 1 for each strain. The RHDV, the non-pathogenic and weakly pathogenic lagoviruses, most of the Iberian and Azorean RHDV2 and the Australian non-pathogenic viruses were collapsed to lighten the figure. *Recombinant RHDV-G1/RHDV2 strains, †unsuccessful 1U/1L PCR amplification.

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