Table 1.

Cetacean morbillivirus detection in cetacean samples from the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea

CeMV strain	Variant	Stranding year	Location	Host	Sample material	RT-PCR (Ct)	NGS coverage	GenBank accession no.	References
PMV	Ulster/88	1988	Northern Ireland, U.K.	Harbor porpoise	Vero cells	NI	5149×	MH430942	2
DMV	16A	1990	Spain	Striped dolphin	Lung	12	6023×	MH430934	28
DMV	16A-cc	1990	Spain	Striped dolphin	Vero cells	13	27×	MH430932	This study
DMV	16A-cc-vdol	1990	Spain	Striped dolphin	Vero-dolSLAM cells	13	1188×	MH430933	This study
DMV	muc	1990	Spain	Striped dolphin	Lung	13	1248×	MH430935	28
DMV	muc-cc	1990	Spain	Striped dolphin	Vero cells	13	20×	MH430936	This study
PMV	53	1990	Netherlands	Harbor porpoise	Vero cells	NI	9120×	MH430943	7
PMV	2990	1990	Netherlands	Harbor porpoise	Brain	32	26×	MH430945	7
PMV	2990-cc	1990	Netherlands	Harbor porpoise	Vero cells	NI	11,933×	MH430944	This study
DMV	DE/2007	2007	Germany	White-beaked dolphin	Brain	19	283×	MH430940	48
DMV	156	2010	Italy	Striped dolphin	Lung	19	50,169×	MH430937	This study
DMV	DMV/LA/NL/11.2	2011	Netherlands	White-beaked dolphin	Lung	23	21×	MH430941	24
DMV	DMV_Bph	2013	Italy	Fin whale	Brain	32	144×	MH430938	14, 49
DMV	DK/16a	2016	Denmark	Fin whale	Lung	27	NI	MH430939	16

Ct value ≤ 40 = positive; Ct value > 40 = negative

RT-PCR reverse transcriptase PCR, Ct value threshold cycle, NGS next-generation sequencing, NI not investigated

^aGenome obtained by Sanger sequencing