Volume 19, Number 4—April 2013
Dispatch
Hepatitis Virus in Long-Fingered Bats, Myanmar
Table
Gene lengths and percentage identity between bat orthohepadnavirus and other hepadnaviruses*
Virus† | pol gene |
preS1/preS2/S gene |
preC/C gene |
X gene |
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nt | % ID | aa | % ID | nt | % ID | aa | % ID | nt | % ID | aa | % ID | nt | % ID | aa | % ID | ||||
BtHV776 | 2562 | – | 853 | – | 1200 | – | 399 | – | 654 | – | 217 | – | 435 | – | 144 | – | |||
HBV | 2532 | 63 | 843 | 57 | 1203 | 63 | 400 | 59 | 639 | 65 | 212 | 66 | 465 | 61 | 154 | 49 | |||
WMHBV | 2508 | 63 | 835 | 55 | 1176 | 64 | 391 | 60 | 636 | 65 | 211 | 63 | 459 | 66 | 152 | 50 | |||
WHV | 2640 | 66 | 879 | 56 | 1281 | 66 | 426 | 51 | 678 | 69 | 225 | 71 | 426 | 67 | 141 | 44 | |||
ASHV | 2634 | 67 | 877 | 53 | 1284 | 67 | 427 | 52 | 654 | 68 | 217 | 71 | 417 | 69 | 138 | 52 | |||
DHBV | 2526 | 41 | 841 | 30 | 1104 | 43 | 367 | 30 | 888 | 42 | 295 | 22 | NA | – | NA | – |
*nt, nucleotide length; % ID, percentage identity of nt and amino acid sequence between BtHV and other viruses; aa, amino acid length; BtHV, bat hepatitis virus; –, not applicable; HBV, hepatitis B virus; WMHBV, woolly monkey HBV; WHV, woodchuck hepatitis virus; ASHV, arctic squirrel hepatitis virus; DHBV, duck HBV; NA, not available.
†GenBank accession nos. for HBV, WMHBV, WHV, ASHV, and DHBV are D00329, AF046996, AY344076, U29144, and EU429324, respectively.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.