Genome characterization of Turkey Rotavirus G strains from the United States identifies potential recombination events with human Rotavirus B strains

Fig. 1.. Similarity plot of different segments of avian RVG strains and human RVB strain. (a) Similarity plot of the complete VP6 gene of RVG strains and human RVB strain: RVB/Human-wt/BAN/Bang117/2002. (b) Similarity plot of the complete NSP3 gene of RVG strains and human RVB strain: RVB/Human-wt/JAP/MMR-B1/2007. The study strain, RVG/turkey-wt/USA/Minnesota-1/2016/VP6, was set as query strain in both analyses. The vertical and horizontal axes indicate the nucleotide sequence identities and nucleotide position (bp) in the graph, respectively.

Fig. 2.. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic trees of different segments of the study strains with the cognate gene of the other RVG strains. Phylogenetic trees based on VP7 (a), VP4 (b), VP6 (c), VP1 (d), VP2 (e), VP3 (f), NSP1 (g), NSP2 (h), NSP3 (i), NSP4 (j) and NSP5 (k). Bootstrap values are represented at major nodes. Black solid circles and solid squares indicate the different segments of our RVG strains: RVG/turkey-wt/USA/Minnesota-1/2016 and RVG/turkey-wt/USA/Minnesota-2/2016, respectively. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site.