Phylogenetic assessment reveals continuous evolution and circulation of pigeon-derived virulent avian avulaviruses 1 in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa

Table 2 Еvolutionary distances^a between class II Newcastle disease virus of genotype VI estimated using the complete fusion gene coding sequences

Sub-genotype (number of analyzed sequences)	VI a	VI b	VI c	VI e	VI f	VI g	VI h	VI i	VI Ethiopia
VI a (n = 165)
VI b (n = 10)	0.071
VI c (n = 19)	0.091	0.069
VI e (n = 16)	0.080	0.063	0.083
VI f (n = 16)	0.075	0.058	0.082	0.059
VI g (n = 25)	0.096	0.080	0.088	0.097	0.091
VI h (n = 9)	0.071	0.071	0.098	0.084	0.081	0.103
VI i (n = 4)	0.113	0.100	0.104	0.108	0.106	0.093	0.120
VI Ethiopia (n = 8)	0.125	0.099	0.106	0.119	0.119	0.107	0.123	0.125
VI m (n = 9)	0.111	0.091	0.099	0.112	0.101	0.085	0.112	0.107	0.120

^a The numbers of base substitutions per site from averaging over all sequence pairs between groups within genotype VI are shown. The analysis involved 281 nucleotide sequences. There were a total of 1647 positions in the final dataset

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