Duck hepatitis A virus (DHAV) genotype definition: Comment on the article by Cha et al.

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• 作者：Huiqiang Wen ^{wen_huiqiang@163.com" class="auth_mail} ; Lingxia Han ^{hlx1993@126.com" class="auth_mail} ; Xiaona Zhang ^{hailanzhixin.hi@163.com" class="auth_mail} ; Chuanjiang Lian ^{cjl121916@163.com" class="auth_mail} ; Lili Zhao ^{zhaolili213@163.com" class="auth_mail} ; Changde Si ^{sichangde2008@yahoo.com.cn" class="auth_mail} ; Hongyan Chen ; ^{chenhongyan@caas.cn" class="auth_mail}
• 关键词：DHAV ; duck hepatitis A virus ; ICTV ; International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ; PASC ; pairwise sequence comparisons ; AEV ; avian encephalomyelitis virus
• 刊名：Veterinary Microbiology
• 出版年：4 June, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：170
• 期：3-4
• 页码：462-464
• 全文大小：788 K

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Duck hepatitis A virus (DHAV) is genetically divided into three different genotypes: the original type DHAV-1, a type recently isolated in Taiwan (DHAV-2), and a recently described type isolated in South Korea and China (DHAV-3). Recently, Cha et al. (2013) concluded that the existence that both DHAV-1 and DHAV-2 had been classified into one branch, with DHAV genotype 3 (DHAV-3) in another, and that the phylogenetic distance unit showed was 0.5, a tremendous value. However, there might be some concerns on the methodology application to define the genotypes of DHAV. Based on 110 genomic and 100 amino acid sequences of DHAV which included all the sequences from Cha et al. (2013) respectively, phylogenetic analysis in the present study showed a distinct and proposed DHAV genotype definition, that both DHAV-2 and DHAV-3 were clustered in one branch while DHAV-1 in another branch only, and that the phylogenetic distance unit of 0.02 was confirmed, which was much smaller than the value 0.5. Taking into account the genotype definition of DHAV, we also conducted the pairwise sequence comparisons (PASC) analysis of 110 genomic sequences, and proposed that the distance genotype definition threshold was 0.045.