Evidence of Intragenic Recombination in African Horse Sickness Virus
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Data Sets
2.2. Generating Complete Genome Sequences of African Horse Sickness Viruses
2.3. Phylogenetic and Recombination Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Segment-1 (VP1)
3.2. Segment-6 (VP5)
3.3. Segment-7 (VP7)
3.4. Segment-10 (NS3)
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Ngoveni, H.G.; van Schalkwyk, A.; Koekemoer, J.J.O. Evidence of Intragenic Recombination in African Horse Sickness Virus. Viruses 2019, 11, 654. https://doi.org/10.3390/v11070654
Ngoveni HG, van Schalkwyk A, Koekemoer JJO. Evidence of Intragenic Recombination in African Horse Sickness Virus. Viruses. 2019; 11(7):654. https://doi.org/10.3390/v11070654
Chicago/Turabian StyleNgoveni, Harry G., Antoinette van Schalkwyk, and J.J. Otto Koekemoer. 2019. "Evidence of Intragenic Recombination in African Horse Sickness Virus" Viruses 11, no. 7: 654. https://doi.org/10.3390/v11070654