TABLE 4.
Sequence comparison of the four ORFs of Kitale virus and selected mammarenaviruses.
| Mammarenavirus species∗ |
nt/aa sequence identities |
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| Z | L | GPC | NP | |
| Ippy virus | 55.7/61.1 | 61.5/62.2 | 71.4/80.5 | 69.5/78.1 |
| Mariental virus | 50.2/55.9 | 57.5/52.6 | 66.8/73.6 | 67.6/73.5 |
| Loie River virus | 54.7/56.5 | 57.0/56.3 | 65.2/69.5 | 66.4/71.1 |
| Lassa virus | 54.3/57.0 | 58.5/55.3 | 67.0/72.4 | 65.1/70.6 |
| Wenzhou virus | 53.0/51.6 | 57.1/55.1 | 63.0/67.2 | 67.3/73.7 |
| Luna virus | 57.7/57.6 | 56.7/54.3 | 69.0/73.7 | 64.7/68.0 |
| Merino Walk virus | 48.5/51.7 | 56.0/53.6 | 62.3/68.3 | 64.8/67.6 |
| Gairo virus | 63.1/54.8 | 57.2/54.7 | 66.8/71.1 | 64.4/69.9 |
| Mopeia virus | 55.7/57.9 | 56.8/54.7 | 66.6/71.7 | 65.9/69.6 |
| LCMV | 47.3/50.0 | 51.9/47.3 | 61.8/61.2 | 62.3/63.8 |
| Lujo virus | 46.1/47.2 | 50.4/43.5 | 52.8/42.3 | 59.3/58.4 |
| Mobala virus | 56.5/60.0 | 56.8/54.9 | 67.5/72.0 | 65.4/69.8 |
∗The GenBank accession numbers of the reference mammarenavirus genome sequences are as following: Ippy virus (NC_007905, NC_007906), Mariental virus (NC_027134, NC_027136), Loie River virus (KC669692, KC669697), Lassa virus (KF478762, KF478765), Wenzhou virus (NC_026018, NC_026019), Luna virus (NC_016152, NC_016153), Merino Walk virus (NC_023763, NC_023764), Gairo virus (NC_026246, NC_026247), Mopeia virus (DQ328874, DQ328875), LCMV (FJ607025, FJ607036), Lujo virus (NC_012776, NC_012777), and Mobala virus (NC_007903, NC_007904).