Figure 2.

(A) LSDV distribution and dispersal across the world based on WGS. Major strain clades are indicated: 1.1 (blue), 1.2 (red) and 2.5 (purple) across the world. The splash symbol indicates the first occurrence of the recombinant strain. The inverted triangles indicate vaccine sequences and the respective ancestral sequences from which they were derived. The thin arrows labelled with * indicate relationships between accession supported by the WGS–based phylogenies. The circles/ovals indicate clades. The large arrows indicate the subsequent direction of dispersal for which the exact trajectory is unknown or not yet included in this paper. The question mark indicates uncertainty about the exact origin which led to a new outbreak. Clade labels are added in the white outlined boxes. (B,C) Networks of the sequence-based datasets for Clades 1.2 and 2.5 decomposed into splits. Here, the 2.1 and 2.5 Subclades are indicated with different colors for different clusters.