. 2015 Apr 22;89(13):6817–6823. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00040-15

TABLE 5.

Recombination frequencies in various CMV strain LS RNA 3 populations in Nicotiana benthamiana

Virus	Plant no.	Total no. of clones	No. of clones with restriction profile shown				Recombination frequency (%)^b	No. of deletion mutants	Deletion frequency (%)
Virus	Plant no.	Total no. of clones	SpeI	BglII	No site	Two-site	Recombination frequency (%)^b	No. of deletion mutants	Deletion frequency (%)
L₁L₂L₃^a	1	104	74	0	30	0	28.80	0	0
	2	110	78	0	32	0	29.09	0	0
	3	101	74	0	27	0	26.73	0	0
							Mean, 28.20 A		Mean, 0
L₁F₂L₃	1	112	0	101	3	0	2.67	8	7.14
	2	102	0	93	2	0	1.96	7	6.86
	3	118	0	105	3	0	2.54	10	8.47
							Mean, 2.39 B		Mean, 7.53
F₁F₂L₃	1	101	0	99	2	0	1.98	0	0
	2	105	0	103	2	0	1.90	0	0
	3	114	0	111	3	0	2.63	0	0
							Mean, 2.17 B		Mean, 0
F₁L₂L₃	1	113	96	0	17	0	15.04	0	0
	2	100	86	0	14	0	14.00	0	0
	3	125	104	0	21	0	16.80	0	0
							Mean, 15.28 C		Mean, 0
L₁F_2aLS_2bL₃	1	100	0	98	0	0	0	2	2
	2	103	0	102	1	0	0.90	0	0
	3	106	0	106	0	0	0	0	0
							Mean, 0.30 D		Mean, 0.65

Data from Table 4.

Differences between recombination frequencies were determined by ANOVA (P < 0.05). Statistically significant differences are marked with different capital letters next to the recombination frequencies.