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The evolutionary dynamics of canid and mongoose rabies virus in Southern Africa.
Archives of virology - 1 Jan 2007
Davis P L, Rambaut A, Bourhy H, Holmes E C
Abstract excerpt
Two variants of rabies virus (RABV) currently circulate in southern Africa: canid RABV, mainly associated with dogs, jackals, and bat-eared foxes, and mongoose RABV. To investigate the evolutionary dynamics of these variants, we performed coalescent-based analyses of the G-L inter-genic region, allowing for rate variation among viral lineages through the use of a relaxed molecular clock. This revealed that...
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