Evolutionary analysis of structural protein gene VP1 of foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype Asia 1.

ABSTRACT: Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) serotype Asia 1 was mostly endemic in Asia and then was responsible for economically important viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals, but the study on its selection and evolutionary process is comparatively rare. In this study, we characterized 377 isolates from Asia collected up until 2012, including four vaccine strains. Maximum likelihood analysis suggested that the strains circulating in Asia were classified into 8 different groups (groups I-VIII) or were unclassified (viruses collected before 2000). On the basis of divergence time analyses, we infer that the TMRCA of Asia 1 virus existed approximately 86.29 years ago. The result suggested that the virus had a high mutation rate (5.745 × 10(-3) substitutions/site/year) in comparison to the other ser

SUBMITTER: Zhang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4352495 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature