Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Dispatch
Eighth Major Clade for Hepatitis Delta Virus
Frédéric Le Gal*1, Elyanne Gault*1, Marie-Pierre Ripault†, Jeanne Serpaggi‡, Jean-Claude Trinchet§, Emmanuel Gordien*, and Paul Dény*
Table 2
Parameters specified by MrBayes (version 3.0β4) application
| Sequences | Substitution rate matrix* |
Nucleotide frequencies |
α† | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G/T | C/T | C/G | A/T | A/G | A/C | pi (A) | pi (C) | pi (G) | pi (T) | ||
| Full length | 1.000 | 2.733 | 0.681 | 1.344 | 3.011 | 0.847 | 0.200 | 0.304 | 0.288 | 0.208 | 0.526 |
| sHD‡ | 1.000 | 6.687 | 0.926 | 2.221 | 3.550 | 1.519 | 0.322 | 0.216 | 0.361 | 0.101 | 0.434 |
*Each substitution rate is expressed as compared with the G/T substitution rate.
†Parameter α is the shape parameter of the γ distribution.
‡Small hepatitis delta nucleotide sequence.
1These authors contributed equally to this work.
