期刊
VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
卷 135, 期 3-4, 页码 368-373出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2008.09.057
关键词
RHDV; Phylogeny; Iberian Peninsula; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Wild rabbit
资金
- Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal [POCTI/BIA-BDE/61553/2004, SFRH/BD/31093/2006, SFRH/BD/31048/2006, SFRH/BPD/27021/2006]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/27021/2006, SFRH/BD/31048/2006, SFRH/BD/31093/2006] Funding Source: FCT
To date information on rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) in Spain and Portugal has been scarce, although the disease is endemic and continues to have a considerable impact on species conservation and hunting industry. We analysed RHDVs obtained between 1994 and 2007 at different geographic locations in Portugal (40 samples), Spain (3 samples) and France (4 samples) from wild European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) that succumbed to the disease. Phylogenetic analyses based on partial VP60 gene sequences allowed a grouping of these RHDVs into three groups, termed Iberian Groups IB1, IB2 and IB3. Interestingly, these three Iberian groups clustered separately, though not far from earlier RHDVs of Genogroup 1 (containing e.g., strain AST89), but clearly distinct from globally described RHDV strains of Genogroups 2-6. This result, supported by a bootstrap value of 76%, gives rise to the hypothesis that the virus evolved independently since its introduction to wild rabbit populations on the Iberian Peninsula, with the Pyrenees acting as a natural barrier to rabbit and hence to virus dispersal. No differences were observed in RHDV sequences obtained from geographic regions where the rabbit subspecies O. c. algirus prevails compared with those obtained from O. c. cuniculus. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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