Article
Baltic lineage of tick-borne encephalitis virus: A putative evolutionary pathway.
Ticks and tick-borne diseases - 1 Oct 2016
Kovalev S Y, Mukhacheva T A
Abstract excerpt
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is transmitted by ixodid ticks and has three subtypes. The most genetically heterogeneous and widely distributed is the Siberian subtype which is subdivided into two main phylogenetic lineages, Asian (TBEV-SibAsia) and Baltic (TBEV-SibBaltic). According to the hypothesis of quantum evolution of TBEV (Kovalev et al., 2014b), TBEV-SibAsia originated about 370 years ago in...
Topics
- Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Viral
