Fig 1. Phleboviruses phylogeny reconstruction.

Phylogenetic relationships between selected Old World sand fly–borne phleboviruses based on partial large (L) RNA sequences; phylogenetic relationships of selected amino acid sequences were inferred by using the maximum likelihood method based on the Jones-Taylor-Thornton (JTT) model gamma distributed with invariant sites [35]. A discrete gamma distribution was used to model evolutionary-rate differences among sites [5 categories]. The analysis involved 44 sequences. All positions with less than 95% site coverage were eliminated so that there was a total of 55 positions in the final dataset. Evolutionary analysis was conducted in MEGA6 using 500 bootstrap pseudoreplications [35].