Table 3.

Sequence analysis of Cap genes of PCV3 strains

Selected strains (GenBank accession no.)	Cap gene		Complete genome
	Nucleotide	Amino acids	nucleotide
Identity of the PCV3 strains identified in our study	95.84–99.18%	87.86–99.52%	94.64–99.82%
Compared with Chinese PCV3 reference strainsa	97.51–98.75%	91.52–97.10%	93.86–97.55%
Compared with PCV3 reference strains from other countriesb	96.34–98.91%	91.52–97.10%	93.12–98.65%

^aThe GenBank accession no. of Chinese PCV3 reference strains: MG897474, MG253681, MG372484, MF769805, MK580467, MG372491, MK746099, MF589106, MK095621, MH277112, MH107161, MF769811, MK284236, and MG897485

^bThe GenBank accession no. of PCV3 reference strains from other countries: MG679916, MF805721, KY996343, MF079254, MF805722, MF805720, and KX778720