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From: The contribution of molecular epidemiology to the understanding and control of viral diseases of salmonid aquaculture

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Overview of the genetic relationships between the main recognized genotypes of VHSV based on a dataset comprised of partial G gene data from 2 representatives of each of the established major genetic subgroups. Publicly available sequences derived from up to 2 isolates from each genotype recognized to date were imported into Bioedit version 7.0.5.3 [76] and a multiple alignment performed using Clustal X [77]. The final alignment consisted of 17 unique sequences spanning a partial region of the VHSV G Gene (649nt). The phylogenetic relationship among VHSV isolates was inferred using a maximum likelihood based approach implemented within PAUP* (version 4.0; [78]) and using the PaupUP interface v1.0.3.1 [79]. The jModeltest 0.1.1 program [80]) was used to identify the model that best fits the sequence data from 56 models using the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC; [81]). The optimal unrooted maximum likelihood tree was identified using a heuristic search implemented in PAUP* and evaluated using 100 bootstrap iterations [82]. Significant bootstrap values for the major clades were transferred to the unrooted tree derived from the original data.

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