Table 3.

Relative abundance of dinucleotides in VP4 [VP8*] and VP7 proteins from P[4]G2 RV-A Brazilian strains and summary of COA.

VP4 [VP8]
		UU	UC	UA	UG	CU	CC	CA	CG
Mean ± S.D.a		1.490 ± 0.035	0.823 ± 0.024	1.665 ± 0.021	0.846 ± 0.020	0.610 ± 0.022	0.381 ± 0.012	1.157 ± 0.023	0.230 ± 0.035
Axis 1b	r	−0.261	0.384	−0.427	0.038	−0.010	0.560	0.127	0.453
	P	0.040	<0.01	<0.001	0.764	0.928	<0.0001	0.317	<0.001

VP4 [VP8]
		AU	AC	AA	AG	GU	GC	GA	GG
Mean ± S.D.		1.951 ± 0.033	0.869 ± 0.034	1.979 ± 0.04	1.177 ± 0.032	0.790 ± 0.025	0.282 ± 0.009	1.166 ± 0.019	0.561 ± 0.017
Axis 1	r	−0.223	0.104	−0.469	0.584	0.422	0.422	0.628	0.191
	P	0.080	0.412	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	0.001	<0.0001	0.133

VP7
		UU	UC	UA	UG	CU	CC	CA	CG
Mean ± S.D.a		1.547 ± 0.020	0.640 ± 0.011	1.808 ± 0.023	1.142 ± 0.013	0.755 ± 0.018	0.250 ± 0.016	0.987 ± 0.024	0.397 ± 0.014
Axis 1b	r	−0.249	0.209	0.227	0.180	0.345	0.781	−0.341	0.126
	P	0.054	0.105	0.080	0.164	<0.01	<0.001	<0.01	0.327

VP7
		AU	AC	AA	AG	GU	GC	GA	GG
Mean ± S.D.		2.056 ± 0.029	1.167 ± 0.020	1.948 ± 0.038	0.595 ± 0.037	0.793 ± 0.025	0.330 ± 0.018	1.013 ± 0.020	0.572 ± 0.024
Axis 1	r	−0.223	−0.327	−0.025	0.285	0.419	0.093	0.101	0.320
	P	0.085	0.011	0.841	0.027	<0.01	0.471	0.429	0.013

^aMean values of 58 P[4]G2 RV-A strains’ relative dinucleotide ratios ± standard deviation.

^bCorrelation analysis between the first axis in COA and the sixteen dinucleotides frequencies in VP4 [VP8*] and VP7 proteins is shown.