Figure 12.

 Phylogenetic tree of piscine and amphibian iridoviruses based on eIF‐2α homologous sequences. Three hundred and fifty nucleotides of frog virus 3 (FV‐3), European sheatfish virus (ESV), European catfish virus (ECV), epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus (EHNV), and Rana esculenta iridovirus (REIR) eIF‐2α genes were compared with partial eIF‐2α genes of humans, Drosophila, and yeast, and complete K3L genes of Variola major virus, Vaccinia strain Copenhagen, and swine poxvirus. Figures on each branch represent percentage bootstrap support for maximum parsimony (S. Essbauer unpublished data).