Table 1. Characteristics of ChocNPV and ChroNPV genomes.

			Baculoviruses*
Features	Choc	Chro	Cf	CfDEF	Op	Hycu	Ac
Genome size (bp)	128,446	129,052	129,593	131,160	131,990	132,959	133,894
GC content (%)	50.1	48.6	50.1	50	55	45	40
No. of ORFs	148	149	146	149	152	148	155
No. of hrs	5	3	5	13	5	6	9
No. of bros	1	2	1	2	3	5	1
Mean % aa ID with Choc	–	77	97.3	70.1	76.7	75.4	56.2
Mean % aa ID with Chro	77	–	82.1	71.1	77.4	74.6	57.4
No. of homologs in Choc	–	144	144	134	133	128	131
No. of homologs in Chro	144	–	135	128	133	130	128
ORFs unique to Choc	2		–	–	–	–	–
ORFs unique to Chro		4	–	–	–	–	–

^*ChocNPV and ChroNPV homologs were compared with five alphabaculoviruses (CfMNPV, CfDEFMNPV, OpMNPV, HycuNPV, and AcMNPV). Amino acid identities were based on BLASTP homology search. Both ChocNPV and ChroNPV shared more ORFs with CfMNPV than with the other viruses. ChocNPV had a mean amino acid identity of 97.3% and ChroNPV 82.1% with CfMNPV.