TABLE 2.
Amino acid similarities between Asian leopard cat/Guangxi/F230/2006 and other known CoVs
| Gene product | Similarity (p distance)a
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 5 | |
| Helicase | 50.5 | 45.8 | 57.6 | 47.7 | 46.1 |
| Spike | 44.4 | 25.9 | 29.3 | 24.9 | 26 |
| Envelope | 14.4 | 14.1 | 24.4 | 18.7 | 15.8 |
| Membrane | 22.9 | 25.7 | 25.3 | 22.5 | 24.9 |
| Nucleocapsid | 19.4 | 24.9 | 33.7 | 26.5 | 22.2 |
a
Full-length amino acid sequence alignments of each of the major gene products were used to calculate similarities with the program MEGA3. The alignments are the same as those used to generate the phylogenetic trees in Fig. 3 and 4 and have been deposited in TreeBase (http:/treebase.org).