Fig. 3.

Recombination of HRVs creates additional serotypes. (A) Representative results showing that hrv-46 arose from a recombination of hrv-53 (major parent) and hrv-80 (minor parent). Shown are normalized pairwise identities between each parent and the daughter hrv (purple and green) and the two parents (yellow). As indicated, hrv-46 nucleotides 32 to 3222 are from hrv-80, and nucleotides 3223 to 7200 are from hrv-53. (B) Recombination with an ancestor of hrv-54-f05 has resulted in seven serotype progeny. Each parental hrv is shown as a solid color. The contribution of each parent is proportional to the area of its color in the offspring. See Table 1 and table S4 for nucleotide boundaries and results from other recombination events.