The comparative genomic analysis provides insights into the phylogeny and virulence of tick-borne encephalitis virus vaccine strain Senzhang

• Meng Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ MZ and JT are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People’s Republic of China

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• Jingyong Tian ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  ¶‡ MZ and JT are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People’s Republic of China

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• Hongying Li,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Tongliao City General Hospital, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China

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• Ming Cang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mdmzhh_2008@126.com

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People’s Republic of China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6303-8100

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