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. 2008 Sep 17;381(1):89–97. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.08.016

Table 2.

Sequence homology between human and Chinese rhesus ACE2 (%)

Gene Hu-ACE2
Rh-ACE2
Amino acid Nucleotidea Amino acid Nucleotide
Hu-ACE2 99.9 99.9 91.0 96.8
Rh-ACE2 91.0 96.8 99.1 99.7
a

Based on Kimura's two-parameter formula. Averages of all pairwise comparisons for Rh-ACE2: ds = 0.0061, dn = 0.0023, ds/dn = 3.6689, ps/pn = 3.6553, while for Hu-ACE2: ds = 0.0060, dn = 0.0006, ds/dn = 10.4417, ps/pn = 10.4043.