Human viruses in the order Mononegavirales (IMAGE)

Kyoto University

Human viruses in the order Mononegavirales

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Phylogenetic tree showing the relationships, evolutionary relatedness, among viruses in the order Mononegavirales.

A phylogenetic tree is a diagram that represents the evolutionary relationships among organisms in a tree-like form.

This tree was constructed based on the similarity of amino acid sequences of RNA polymerase, a protein required for viral replication.

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Masayuki Horie/Osaka Metropolitan University & Yukihiko Sugita/Kyoto University

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