Table 2 Sequence analysis of the genome sequences of pigeon circovirus (PiCV) strains
Selected strains | Genome sequence | cap gene sequence | rep gene sequence | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nucleotide | Nucleotide | Amino acids | Nucleotide | Amino acids | |
Identity of the PiCV strains identified in our study | 85.8–100% | 77.0–100% | 76.6–100% | 90.9–100% | 91.1–100% |
Compared with Chinese PiCV reference strains | 84.2–98.9% | 72.8–99.5% | 72.6–100% | 89.2–99.0% | 88.6–99.3% |
Compared with PiCV reference strains from other countries | 82.7–97.9% | 70.7–99.2% | 64.5–100% | 89.4–97.5% | 90.2–99.0% |