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. 2013 May;87(9):5193–5204. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02743-12

Table 4.

Defective sequences and variable sites

Group No./total no. (%)
Defective viruses
Variable sitesa
Indels Stop codons 1st and 2nd codon position 3rd codon position
All clones 90/915 (9.8%) 39/915 (4.3%) 217/283 (76.7%) 121/142 (85.2%)
Founder sequences 1/55 (1.8%) 0/55 (0%) 19/283 (6.7%) 32/142 (22.5%)
a

Among apparently nondefective viral sequences.