Table 4.

PNG Anopheles^* voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) intron sequence comparisons

	Aligned length†	Range	Identical sites	%	Pairwise % identity
Intron 1
AP	926	880–923	780	84.2	98.1
AF1	928	928	902	97.2	99.5
AH	951	939–950	868	91.3	97.8
AF4	941	925–938	899	95.5	98.8
AK	955	940–953	872	91.3	98.1
AP Complex	1007	880–953	521	51.7	88.5
APC + AL‡	1000	880–953	409	40.9	87.8
Intron 2
AP	65	–	63	96.9	99.8
AF1	65	–	63	96.9	99.6
AH	68	–	61	89.7	97.7
AF4	66	–	64	97	99.5
AK	68	–	66	97.1	99.1
AP Complex	71	65–68	43	60.6	90.8
APC† + AL	71	64–68	31	43.7	90.2

^*AP = Anopheles punctulatus; AF1 = Anopheles farauti s.s.; AH = Anopheles hinesorum; AF4 = An. farauti 4; AK = Anopheles koliensis.

^†Base pairs.

^‡APC = An. punctulatus species complex; AL = Anopheles longirostris.