Table 3. Mean amino acid distances in full-length capsid protein gene of FeAstV strains identified in the present study and other FeAstV reference strains^*.

	Group 1		Group 2
	MH253859- MH253876	AF056197	MH253877- MH253878	KM017742	KM017743	KF499111	KF374704
MH253859-MH253876 a	0.068±0.007	0.084±0.009	0.453±0.016	0.447±0.017	0.461±0.018	0.452±0.017	0.452±0.017
MH253877-MH253878 b	0.453±0.016	0.476±0.018	0.007±0.003	0.202±0.013	0.077±0.008	0.069±0.008	0.065±0.009
Within group	0.069±0.004		0.101±0.007
Between group	0.454±0.016

^* Mean amino acid distances (mean±SEM) were estimated using p-distances model with 1,000 bootstrap replicates in MEGA 7.0 software.

^a FeAstV strains identified in the present study except 17CC0308 and 17CC0311.

^b FeAstV strains 17CC0308 and 17CC0311.