Phylogenetic analysis of E183L (p54) of ASFV
The phylogenetic analysis of the p54 protein of ASFV revealed that all Nigerian sequences clustered with some sequences from West African countries belonging to genotype 1a (Fig 3). The phylogenetic tree was constructed using sequences of 16 genotypes retrieved from the Genbank. Comparison of sequences from this study and recent sequences from other West African countries showed 99-100% similarity with sequences from Cameroon (MG596464, MG596468), Ivory Coast (MH836355), and Mali (MT886241).