Figure 2.
The deduced NSP2 amino acid sequences of the new-branch strains compared with the reference PRRSV strains. The position of the deduced Nsp2 amino acid sequence relative to the VR-2332 strain. Purple indicates the common aa deletion of intermediate PRRSV, new-branch PRRSV and HP-PRRSV. Red indicates the deletion pattern of HP-PRRSV; green indicates the novel characteristic discontinuous deletion pattern of new-branch PRRSV; yellow indicates the deletion pattern of NADC30 PRRSV (not fully displayed); cyan indicates other deletion patterns of intermediate PRRSV strains. The new-branch PRRSV strains obtained in this study are labeled with red triangles (▲). The strains obtained from GenBank belonging to the new branch are marked with blue squares (■).