Figure 2

Phylogenetic tree for the partial sequence 3D of the Encephalomyocarditis viruses. The evolutionary history was inferred by using the Maximum Likelihood method based on the Tamura 3-parameter model. Sequences are identified as follows: accession number/virus/strain/host/country. Obtained sequences on samples from wild or semi-captive bonobos were closely identical to each other and to the available sequences in GenBank detected on other mammals (chimpanzee, pigs, tiger, rodents and dog). By contrast, they were distinct from the strain SPU64/03 (in bold), responsible of the fatal epizooty in Lola²⁵. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths measured in the number of substitutions per site. The analysis involved 27 nucleotide sequences. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 228 positions in the final dataset. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA7⁶¹.