RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Ming, Pinggang A1 Yan, Jiaxin A1 Rayner, Simon A1 Meng, Shengli A1 Xu, Gelin A1 Tang, Qing A1 Wu, Jie A1 Luo, Jing A1 Yang, XiaomingYR 2010 T1 A history estimate and evolutionary analysis of rabies virus variants in China JF Journal of General Virology, VO 91 IS 3 SP 759 OP 764 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.016436-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1465-2099, AB To investigate the evolutionary dynamics of rabies virus (RABV) in China, we collected and sequenced 55 isolates sampled from 14 Chinese provinces over the last 40 years and performed a coalescent-based analysis of the G gene. This revealed that the RABV currently circulating in China is composed of three main groups. Bayesian coalescent analysis estimated the date of the most recent common ancestor for the current RABV Chinese strains to be 1412 (with a 95 % confidence interval of 1006–1736). The estimated mean substitution rate for the G gene sequences (3.961×10−4 substitutions per site per year) was in accordance with previous reports for RABV., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/vir.0.016436-0