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Volume 20, Number 7—July 2014
Letter

MERS–Related Betacoronavirus in Vespertilio superans Bats, China

Li Yang1, Zhiqiang Wu1, Xianwen Ren1, Fan Yang1, Junpeng Zhang, Guimei He, Jie Dong, Lilian Sun, Yafang Zhu, Shuyi Zhang, and Qi JinComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Beijing, China (L. Yang, Z. Wu, X. Ren, F. Yang, J. Dong, L. Sun, Y. Zhu, Q. Jin); Institute of Pathogen Biology, Beijing (L. Yang, Z. Wu, X. Ren, F. Yang, J. Dong, L. Sun, Y. Zhu, Q. Jin); East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (J. Zhang, G. He, S. Zhang)

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Phylogenetic trees based on the deduced amino acid sequences of the partial RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp; an 816-nt sequence fragment corresponding to positions 14817–15632 in human Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus [hCoV-MERS; KF192507]) and complete spike (S) protein. The novel virus is shown in gray, and hCoV-MERS is shown in bold. The following coronaviruses were used (GenBank accession numbers are shown in parentheses): severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-Co

Figure. Phylogenetic trees based on the deduced amino acid sequences of the partial RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp; an 816-nt sequence fragment corresponding to positions 14817–15632 in human Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus [hCoV-MERS; KF192507]) and complete spike (S) proteinThe novel virus is shown in gray, and hCoV-MERS is shown in boldThe following coronaviruses were used (GenBank accession numbers are shown in parentheses): severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV; NC004718), Bat Rp-coronavirus/Shaanxi2011(JX993987), Bat Cp-coronavirus/Yunnan2011(JX993988), Bat coronavirus HKU9-1 (BtCoV-HKU9-1; EF065513), BtCoV-133/2005(NC008315), BtCoV-HKU4-1 (EF065505), BtCoV-HKU4-2 (EF065506), BtCoV-HKU4-3 (EF065507), BtCoV-HKU4-4 (EF065508), BtCoV-HKU5-1 (EF065509), BtCoV-HKU5-2 (EF065510), BtCoV-HKU5-3 (EF065511), BtCoV-HKU5-5 (EF065512), BtCoV-ITA26/384/2012 (KF312399), BtCoV-KW2E-F82 (JX899382), BtCoV-KW2E-F93 (JX899383), BtCoV-KW2E-F53 (JX899384), BtCoV-8–724 (KC243390), BtCoV-8–691 (KC243391), BtCoV-UKR-G17 (KC243392), Human betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012 (hCoV-MERS/EMC; JX869059), hCoV-OC43 (NC005147), hCoV-NL63 (NC005831), Betacoronavirus ErinaceusCoV/2012-174 (EriCoV-2012-174; KC545383), and EriCoV-2012-216 (KC545386)Scale bar indicates genetic distance estimated by using WAG+G model for the RdRp and WAG+G+F model for the S protein implemented in MEGA5 (http://www.megasoftware.net/).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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