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Later, more infected ferret badgers were reported from different geographic regions of Taiwan. In order to know its evolutionary history and spatial temporal dynamics of this virus, phylogeny was reconstructed by maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods based on the full-length of glycoprotein (G), matrix protein (M), and nucleoprotein (N) genes. The evolutionary rates and phylogeographic were determined using Beast and SPREAD software. Phylogenetic trees showed a monophyletic group containing all of RABV isolates from Taiwan and it further separated into three sub-groups. The estimated nucleotide substitution rates of G, M, and N genes were between 2.49 \u00d7 10\u22124\u20134.75 \u00d7 10\u22124 substitutions\/site\/year, and the mean ratio of dN\/dS was significantly low. The time of the most recent common ancestor was estimated around 75, 89, and 170 years, respectively. Phylogeographic analysis suggested the origin of the epidemic could be in Eastern Taiwan, then the Formosan ferret badger moved across the Central Range of Taiwan to western regions and separated into two branches. In this study, we illustrated the evolution history and phylogeographic of RABV in Formosan ferret badgers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms17030392","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,17]],"date-time":"2016-03-17T11:35:47Z","timestamp":1458214547000},"page":"392","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Spatial Temporal Dynamics and Molecular Evolution of Re-Emerging Rabies Virus in Taiwan"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3672-3000","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yung-Cheng","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6506-7458","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pei-Yu","family":"Chu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mei-Yin","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung 83102, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kuang-Liang","family":"Hsiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jih-Hui","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Diagnostics and Vaccine Development, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei 11561, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hsin-Fu","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Nursing, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei 11219, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"360","article-title":"Re-evaluating the burden of rabies in Africa and Asia","volume":"83","author":"Knobel","year":"2005","journal-title":"Bull. 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