Table 1.

Interspecific mean uncorrected p-distances (%) for Candidatus Liberibacter species and subspecies: Las - Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, Laf - Candidatus Liberibacter africanus, LafCl - Candidatus Liberibacter africanus subsp. clausenae, LafC - Candidatus Liberibacter africanus subsp. capensis and LafV - Candidatus Liberibacter africanus subsp. vepridis. Distances were calculated based on a 649 bp alignment of 273 new and publicly available sequences. Standard error estimates are shown above the diagonal. * - Sequences from this study combined with publicly available sequences.

	Laf*	LafC (GenBank)	LafCl*	LafV (GenBank)	Las*
Laf*	—	0.016	0.015	0.015	0.017
LafC (GenBank)	16.88	—	0.007	0.008	0.017
LafCl*	15.43	2.72	—	0.008	0.017
LafV (GenBank)	16.88	4.36	3.81	—	0.018
Las*	23.23	20.51	20.33	22.32	—