In contrast to mosquito-borne flaviviruses where recombination events are frequent [13, 14] , evolution in the MTBFG was considered to be clonal. This perception changed recently with reports of several putative recombinations in Tick-borne encephalitis virus [15, 16] . We aim to investigate the strength of the recombination signals reported by Yun et al. [16] , since if proved valid their discovery would lead to a radical departure from the classical understanding of the evolutionary dynamic in MTBFG. Although, we could not confirm the previously described recombinations, we did identify a strong recombinant signal in the LIV lineage. Putative parents, recombinant strains and breakpoints were further tested for statistical significance using phylogenetic methods.