TABLE 3.

Percentage sequence similarity of HBV SO S gene with other HBV strains

	SO	GIBBa	CHb	Ac	Bd	Ce	Df	Eg	Fh
SO	100	92.6	90.4	88.4	86.5	88	89.8	87.6	84.1
Gibbon		100	91.8	88.2	86.6	88.6	89.9	88.3	84.6
Chimpanzee			100	89.0	88.2	88.3	92.5	90.6	85.4
A				100	90.9	92.8	88.0	89.8	86.0
B					100	91.0	88.0	88.5	85.4
C						100	88.0	89.3	86.2
D							100	90.7	84.4
E								100	85.3
F									100

^aGibbon HBV (GenBank no. U46935). 

^bChimpanzee HBV (GenBank no. D00220). 

^cHuman HBV genotype A (GenBank no. M57663). 

^dHuman HBV genotype B (GenBank no. M54923). 

^eHuman HBV genotype C (GenBank no. X01587). 

^fHuman HBV genotype D (GenBank no. V01460). 

^gHuman HBV genotype E (GenBank no. X75664). 

^hHuman HBV genotype F (GenBank no. X75663).