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Volume 20, Number 12—December 2014
Research

Molecular Evolution of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus

Murali Muniraju, Muhammad Munir, AravindhBabu R. Parthiban, Ashley Banyard, Jingyue Bao, Zhiliang Wang, Chrisostom Ayebazibwe, Gelagay Ayelet, Mehdi El Harrak, Mana Mahapatra, Geneviève Libeau, Carrie Batten, and Satya ParidaComments to Author 
Author affiliations: The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, UK (M. Muniraju, M. Munir, M. Mahapatra, C. Batten, S. Parida); National Institute for Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad, India (A.R. Parthiban, S Parida); Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, UK (A.C. Banyard); China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre, Qingdao, China (J. Bao, Z. Wang); National Animal Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology Centre, Entebbe, Uganda (C. Ayebazibwe); National Veterinary Institute, Debre Zeit, Ethiopia (G. Ayelet); Société de Productions Pharmaceutiques et Vétérinaires, Rabat, Morocco (M. El Harrak); Le Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier (G. Libeau)

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Table 2

Nucleotide and amino acid sequence differences in complete genomes of peste des petits ruminants virus lineages*

Lineage Lineage
I II III IV
I 5.1 6.1–7.0 5.7–6.1
II 9.0 5.7–6.3 4.0–4.2
III 10.9–11–9 9.9–10.8 0.2–3.0, 0.2–6.2 6.1–7.2
IV 10.3–10.7 7.2–7.6 10.7–11.8 0.1–2.0, 0.1–3.2

*Values are percentage nucleotide (bold) and amino acid sequences differences.

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1Preliminary results were presented at the 15th International Negative Strand Virus Meeting, June 16–21, 2013, Granada, Spain.

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