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Molecular phylogenetic analysis of felid herpesvirus 1
K Willoughby1, M Bennett, C M McCracken
1Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool, UK. kimw@liv.ac.uk
Veterinary Microbiology
|October 9, 1999
Abstract:
The position of felid herpesvirus 1 within the alphaherpesvirus subfamily was investigated using molecular phylogenetic techniques applied to multiple sequence alignments of recently reported FHV-1 gene homologs (glycoprotein B, ribonucleotide reductase and DNA polymerase). FHV-1 was most closely related to other carnivore alphaherpesviruses, (phocid herpesvirus 1 and canid herpesvirus 1) and to the equid herpesviruses 1 and 4.