Molecular phylogenetic comparison of myxoma viruses from European wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and Iberian hares (Lepus granatensis) by Maximum Likelihood method. The tree with the highest log likelihood (–915.2677) is shown. The percentage of trees in which the associated taxa clustered together is shown next to the branches. Initial trees for the heuristic search were obtained by applying the Neighbor-Joining method and a matrix of pairwise distances estimated using the Maximum Composite Likelihood approach. A discrete Gamma distribution was used to model evolutionary rate among sites (five categories [+G, parameter = 0.1466]). The analysis involved 77 nucleotide sequences. There was a total of 483 positions in the final dataset. Sequences from this study are shown using asterisks (****). The branches of each of the two main clades are shown with different thickness from the central point.