Detecting positively selected codons in the glycoprotein of spring viraemia of carp virus (SVCV) isolates from the USA and China

摘要

Spring viraemia of carp virus (SVCV) belonging to the genus Vesiculovirus and family Rhabdoviridae is a contagious viral disease primarily causing outbreaks in common carp, Cyprinus carpio L., koi, C. carpio koi and several other cyprinids such as crucian carp, Carassius carassius (L.), grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes), silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Valenciennes), bighead carp, Aristichthys nobilis (Richardson), and a non-cyprinid species, the sheatfish, Silurus glanis L. (Ahne, Bjorklund & Essbauer 2002; Dikkeboom, Radi & Toohey-Kurth 2004).