Phylogenetic evidence for the distinction of Saaremaa and Dobrava hantaviruses

Table 2 Bootstrap and puzzle support values for DOBV and SAAVclades in phylogenetic trees calculated using different methods.

method	outgroup	support for: DOBV	support for: SAAV
maximum likelihood	SEOV	100	70
maximum likelihood	collection*	100	49
maximum likelihood	no outgroup	100	100
maximum parsimony	SEOV	100	75
maximum parsimony	collection*	100	75
distance matrix: Neighbor-joining	SEOV	100	84
distance matrix: Neighbor-joining	collection*	100	91
distance matrix: Fitch-Margoliash	SEOV	79	58
distance matrix: Fitch-Margoliash	collection*	100	79
distance matrix: Fitch-Margoliash	no outgroup	100	99
TreePuzzle**	SEOV	99	87
TreePuzzle	collection*	99	75

*A collection of hantavirus sequences including SNV, ANDV, ELMCV, TULV, TOPV, PUUV, SEOV strains SR11 and Gou3, HTNV strains 76–118 and 84Fli **Tamura-Nei was used as the nucleotide (nt) substitution model in TreePuzzle, as suggested by Modeltest.

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