Fig. 1

Phylogenetic tree of hantavirus based on the partial sequences of the L segment coding region. Phylogenetic tree generated by the Neighbour-joining methods and Kimura-2 parameter, based on the alignment of the coding region of the L partial segment 301 nucleotides long of rodents-borne hantaviruses detected in Madagascar. ●Reference Sequences ■ Outgroup sequences obtained from Genbank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/. Our strains are indicated by Z and the initial of the district followed by the name of the isolation site. In bold are the sequences of hantavirus detected in Mus musculus. Only bootstrap percentages ≥70% (from 1000 resampling) is indicated. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitution per site