Table 3.
k-tuple distance values for variants with single substitutions or eliminations located in the ends of sequencesa
| Position from end | k-tuple distance | Deleted nucleotides (n) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.00000 | 0.00069 | 0.000000 | 0 |
| 2 | 0.00069 | 0.00117 | 0.000380 | 1 |
| 3 | 0.00082 | 0.00179 | 0.000580 | 2 |
| 4 | 0.00137 | 0.00248 | 0.000580 | 3 |
| 5 | 0.00145 | 0.00331 | 0.000960 | 4 |
| 6 | 0.00255 | 0.00324 | 0.000962 | 5 |
| 7 | 0.00234 | 0.00441 | 0.001349 | 6 |
| 8 | 0.00381 | 0.00531 | 0.001543 | 7 |
| 9 | 0.00426 | 0.00552 | 0.002128 | 8 |
| 5′ end | 3′ end | |||
a
Note: We calculated the k-tuple distance between every variant and the Citrus II viroid genome. In the second and third columns we present the results for three possible single substitutions in the 5′ or 3′ ends. In the fourth column the results represent the combined effect of successive eliminations in the 3′ end and the resulting substitutions in the new ends.