Table 3.

Sequence pair similarity values (percentages, %) based on the nucleotide (nt) and amino acid (aa) sequences of the polyprotein and VP1 coding regions of the IPNV isolates

Nucleotide sequence identity values are presented in the upper diagonal, and amino acid sequence identity values in the lower diagonal part of the table. In each cell, the upper value is for the polyprotein and the lower value is for the VP1 sequences. NCBI Genbank Accession numbers for previously published polyprotein sequences: Sp 31-75 (AJ622822), 6B1 (AY780919), Hecht (AF342730), and for the VP1 sequences: Sp 31-75 (AJ622823), 24R (AJ489243), Hecht (JF734351, partial VP1 sequence: 498bp). The highest similarity values for each Finnish IPNV isolate are in bold. Gg = genogroup