Table 5

Novel Betacoronavirus in Dromedaries of the Middle East, 2013

Patrick C.Y. Woo¹

, Susanna K.P. Lau¹, Ulrich Wernery, Emily Y.M. Wong, Alan K.L. Tsang, Bobby Johnson, Cyril C.Y. Yip, Candy C.Y. Lau, Saritha Sivakumar, Jian-Piao Cai, Rachel Y.Y. Fan, Kwok-Hung Chan, Ringu Mareena, and Kwok-Yung Yuen

Author affiliations: The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (P.C.Y. Woo, S.K.P. Lau, E.Y.M. Wong, A.K.L. Tsang, C.C.Y. Yip, C.C.Y. Lau, J.-P. Cai, R.Y.Y. Fan, K.H. Chan, K.-Y. Yuen); Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (U. Wernery, B. Johnson, S. Sivakumar, R. Mareena)

Main Article

Estimates of nonsynonymous and synonymous substitution rates in the genomes of a novel betacoronavirus, DcCoV UAE-HKU23, discovered in dromedaries of the Middle East, 2013*

Gene	Ka	Ks	Ka/Ks
NSP1	0	0.004	0
NSP2	0	0.002	0
NSP3	0.001	0.006	0.167
NSP4	0.001	0.007	0.143
NSP5	0.001	0.003	0.333
NSP6	0.001	0.003	0.333
NSP7	0	0	�?"
NSP8	0	0.016	0
NSP9	0	0	�?"
NSP10	0	0	�?"
NSP11	0	0	�?"
NSP12	0	0.002	0
NSP13	0	0.002	0
NSP14	0.001	0	�?"
NSP15	0.001	0	�?"
NSP16	0	0	�?"
NS2	0.001	0.008	0.125
HE	0.001	0.002	0.5
Spike	0.001	0.004	0.25
NS5	0	0.009	0
Envelope	0	0	�?"
Membrane	0	0	�?"
Nucleocapsid	0	0	�?"
N2	0	0	�?"

DcCoV, dromedary camel coronavirus; Ka, nonsynonymous site; Ks, synonymous site; NSP, nonstructural protein; NS, nonstructural; HE, hemagglutinin esterase; N, nucleocapsid.

Main Article

¹These authors contributed equally to this article.

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