TABLE 1.
Sequence identity among new avihepadnaviruses and prototypes of other avihepadnavirusesa
| Virus | % Identity with:
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| HHBV | RGHBV | SGHBV | STHBV | CHBV | MDHBVa | MDHBVb | CWHBV | PTHBV | OSHBV | ASHBV | |
| DHBV | 78.4 | 83.0 | 88.7 | 78.3 | 84.5 | 82.9 | 85.9 | 91.0 | 91.1 | 87.7 | 87.6 |
| HHBV | 78.9 | 78.7 | 85.9 | 78.9 | 78.9 | 79.3 | 78.8 | 78.7 | 78.3 | 77.9 | |
| RGHBV | 81.5 | 79.0 | 84.5 | 99.1 | 93.3 | 82.7 | 82.6 | 81.7 | 82.0 | ||
| SGHBV | 78.4 | 84.2 | 81.5 | 83.2 | 88.4 | 88.8 | 86.7 | 85.8 | |||
| STHBV | 80.3 | 79.0 | 79.5 | 78.4 | 78.2 | 78.5 | 78.2 | ||||
| CHBV | 84.5 | 85.1 | 84.5 | 84.6 | 84.3 | 84.9 | |||||
| MDHBVa | 93.6 | 82.8 | 82.7 | 82.0 | 82.1 | ||||||
| MDHBVb | 84.6 | 84.3 | 83.4 | 83.2 | |||||||
| CWHBV | 94.8 | 89.0 | 88.0 | ||||||||
| PTHBV | 89.1 | 87.7 | |||||||||
| OSHBV | 89.5 | ||||||||||
a
Sequence comparisons were made by using the following sequences (identified by GenBank accession number): DHBV, K01834; HHBV, M22056; RGHBV, M95589; SGHBV, AF110999; STHBV, AJ251934; CHBV, AJ441111; MDHBVa, AY494848; MDHBVb, AY494849; CWHBV, AY494850; PTHBV, AY494851; OSHBV, AY494852; ASHBV, AY494853.