TABLE 3.

Sequence pair distances of intimin genes on the basis of a ClustalW alignment using sequence distance matrix from Bioedit

Gene	Distance with respect toa:
	α	β	γ1	γ2	ɛ	ζ	η	θ	ι	κ
α	1.000	0.833	0.857	0.845	0.824	0.916	0.847	0.845	0.870	0.879
β		1.000	0.830	0.840	0.863	0.827	0.818	0.838	0.828	0.886
γ1			1.000	0.913	0.832	0.846	0.841	0.909	0.870	0.856
γ2				1.000	0.840	0.829	0.828	0.992	0.859	0.843
ɛ					1.000	0.816	0.921	0.839	0.830	0.819
ζ						1.000	0.835	0.828	0.850	0.858
η							1.000	0.828	0.846	0.853
θ								1.000	0.858	0.841
ι									1.000	0.868
κ										1.000

^aValues represent ratios of identities to the length of the longer sequence of a given pair. Values in bold type are mentioned in the text.