Fig. 1

Phylogenetic placement of lyssaviruses within the subfamily Alpharhabdovirinae, family Rhabdoviridae. The evolutionary history was inferred from an alignment of the complete L protein sequences of animal rhabdoviruses, using the Maximum Likelihood method. Initial tree(s) for the heuristic search were obtained automatically by applying Neighbor-Joining and BioNJ algorithms to a matrix of pairwise distances estimated using a JTT model. Statistical significance was assessed via 100 bootstrap replicates (values > 70 are shown for key nodes)