“…Kr-owl/6/05 and the Kr-owl/7/ 05 were placed in the genotype VII and showed the highest degree of similarity to strains of NDV (Ch-501/02, ZJ-1/00, Kr-005/00, and KBNP-4152) belonging to subgenotype d of the genotype VII (VIId). This indicates that these Korean owl isolates belong, genetically, to the VIId group, which is prevalent in poultry in eastern Asia, including Korea, Japan, China, and, in more recent years, Taiwan (Ke et al, 2001;Yu et al, 2001;Mase et al, 2002;Lee et al, 2004;Zou et al, 2005). Interestingly, the owl isolates Krowl/6/05 and the Kr-owl/7/05 showed the highest nucleotide similarities (99.5% over 389 nucleotides) to Korean isolates Kr-021/04, which was isolated from a layer chicken in December 2004 (Cho et al, 2007).…”