Description: English: Maximum parsimony phylogram indicating the relationship of deer tick virus to other tick-borne encephalitis group viruses. Values above branches indicate bootstrapped confidence values. Branch lengths are proportional to percent similarity in sequence. TBE, tick borne encephalitis; TSE, Turkish sheep encephalitis; GGE, Greek goat encephalitis; LI, louping ill virus; SSE, Spanish sheep encephalitis; KFD, Kyasanur Forest disease virus; TYU, Tyuleniy virus; SRE, Saumarez Reef virus. The topology of the phylogram that was independently derived from NS-5 does not differ from that of env and is not presented. Date: 1997, Apr-Jun. Source:
A New Tick-borne Encephalitis-like Virus Infecting New England Deer Ticks, Ixodes dammini. Emerging Infectious Diseases. Vol 3 No 2. Author: Sam R. Telford III, Philip M. Armstrong, Paula Katavolos, Ivo Foppa, A. Sonia Olmeda Garcia, Mark L. Wilson, Andrew Spielman.