Table 2.
Nucleotide identities between the bat viruses newly identified here and known hepadnaviruses.
| Lineage (No. of viruses) | Genome nucleotides identity (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HBV/ayw | WMHBV | WHV | TBHBV | LBHBV | HBHBV-Gabon | RBHBV-Gabon | HBHBV-China | RBHBV-China | Within lineage | |
| 1A (7) | 64.2–64.3 | 65.6–65.8 | 64.5–64.7 | 62.5–62.7 | 72.2–72.4 | 74.9–75.0 | 73.9–74.1 | 79.3–79.6 | 77.4–77.6 | 99.4–100 |
| 1C (2) | 65.7 | 65.5–65.6 | 65.1–65.2 | 63.7–63.8 | 72.0 | 76.2 | 76.5 | 92.7–92.8 | 81.8 | 99.8 |
| 1E (2) | 64.6 | 65.4 | 64.9 | 62.3–62.4 | 71.6 | 74.8–74.9 | 74.2 | 83.4–83.5 | 82.4 | 99.7 |
| 1F (23) | 63.9–64.5 | 64.7–65.0 | 65.0–65.4 | 63.1–63.8 | 70.4–71.2 | 74.6–74.5 | 74.8–75.8 | 84.7–85.9 | 81.7–82.9 | 95.5–100 |
| 2C (6) | 66.0–66.2 | 66.0–66.1 | 66.1–66.2 | 63.8–63.9 | 72.0–72.3 | 79.6–79.7 | 79.5–79.7 | 76.1–76.3 | 74.5–74.7 | 99.2–99.9 |
Notes: HBV – human hepatitis B virus; WMHBV – Woolly monkey hepatitis virus; WHV – Woodchuck hepatitis virus; TBHBV – tent-making hepatitis B virus; LBHBV – long-fingered hepatitis B virus; HBHBV– horseshoe hepatitis B virus; RBHBV – roundleaf hepatitis B virus.