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. 2010 Jun 15:6:91-6.
doi: 10.4137/ebo.s4966.

Molecular phylogeny of edge hill virus supports its position in the yellow Fever virus group and identifies a new genetic variant

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Molecular phylogeny of edge hill virus supports its position in the yellow Fever virus group and identifies a new genetic variant

Joanne Macdonald et al. Evol Bioinform Online. .

Abstract

Edge Hill virus (EHV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus isolated throughout Australia during mosquito surveillance programs. While not posing an immediate threat to the human population, EHV is a taxonomically interesting flavivirus since it remains the only member of the yellow fever virus (YFV) sub-group to be detected within Australia. Here we present both an antigenic and genetic investigation of collected isolates, and confirm taxonomic classification of the virus within the YFV-group. Isolates were not clustered based on geographical origin or time of isolation, suggesting that minimal genetic evolution of EHV has occurred over geographic distance or time within the EHV cluster. However, two isolates showed significant differences in antigenic reactivity patterns, and had a much larger divergence from the EHV prototype (19% nucleotide and 6% amino acid divergence), indicating a distinct subtype or variant within the EHV subgroup.

Keywords: EHV; Edge Hill virus; flavivirus; yellow fever virus.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Phylogenic analysis of EHV nucleotide sequences. EHV and other mosquito-borne flavivirus nucleotide sequences (660 nucleotides) of the NS5 gene were aligned using Clustal W. Phylogenetic analysis was performed with the PHYLIP analysis package using the following parameters: DNA distances were obtained from the Kimura 2-parameter algorithm, phylogenetic relationships determined with the neighbour-joining algorithm, and statistical significance of clusters calculated by bootstrapping 100 replicates and subsequent determination of consensus trees. Bootstrap (B) values are shown in the grey italics, and percent nucleotide similarity (nt) is shown in blue. EHV strains are shown in red, whereas EHV variants are shown in green. Scale bar indicates the distance length of 10 percent divergence.

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