Phylogenetic Analysis of a Frog Virus 3–Like Ranavirus Found at a Site with Recurrent Mortality and Morbidity Events in Southeastern Ontario, Canada: Partial Major Capsid Protein Sequence Alone Is Not Sufficient for Fine-Scale Differentiation

Abstract

Ranaviruses are emerging pathogens of amphibians. We examined the phylogenetic relationship of ranaviruses from infected Lithobates sylvaticus tadpoles 2001-2004 from Oliver Pond, Ontario, Canada. The isolates sequenced are primarily frog virus 3-like, but because of sequence convergence, finer-scale analysis based on the major capsid protein was uninformative.