Figure 6.
Viral genomes from mallards inoculated at the medium dose can have more changes in the genome compared to those inoculated with the high dose, but no differences were observed in measurements of SNV diversity. Consensus sequences from whole genome deep sequencing was obtained from oropharyngeal and cloacal swabs, and subsequently compared to the consensus sequence of the inoculum. (A) Total number of nucleotide changes found between mallards inoculated with the high dose and those inoculated with the medium dose. (B) Nucleotide changes classified according to which gene segment they were found in. Statistical comparisons were made with the same gene between the two groups. (C) Mean frequency of all SNVs per sample. (D) Total number of SNV sites per sample. (E) Shannon entropy scores. *p<0.05 using Mann-Whitney test.

