Figure 3

Schematic representation of the vesivirus genome organization and the sequence conservation along the alignment of the full-length genome sequences. The Plotcon program was used for the sequence comparison of either the VESV-like viruses only (black color line) or all vesiviruses (grey color line). Similarity plots were generated with a sliding window of 200 nt. Each plotted point was an average of the position similarities within the window, and the position similarities were calculated using the algorithm described in plotcon (http://emboss.open-bio.org/rel/rel6/apps/plotcon.html).