TABLE 2.
A comparison of amino acid divergence among the three species of Leviviridae
| Divergence (p) |
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| Comparison | Maturase (M) | Coat (C) | Replicase (R) | Lysis (L) | Mean |
| MS2-fr | 0.199 | 0.125 | 0.163 | 0.257 | 0.186 |
| MS2-NL95 | 0.723 | 0.742 | 0.631 | NA | 0.699 |
| fr-NL95 | 0.717 | 0.767 | 0.627 | NA | 0.704 |
Pairwise divergence (uncorrected pairwise divergence, p) is reported as the percentage of the number of differences excluding sites with gaps. NA, not applicable as the coding region is absent in one or more of the species (see Figure 1).