Influenza Research and Treatment

Research Article

Genetic Analysis of Avian Influenza Viruses: Cocirculation of Avian Influenza Viruses with Allele A and B Nonstructural Gene in Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) Ducks Wintering in Japan

Table 5

Percentage identity (%) of nucleotide sequences of nucleoprotein (NP) coding genes of avian influenza viruses: intrahomology and interhomology with interrelated sequences from GenBank.


Virus	Identity^a (%)	Highest identity^b (%)

Segment 5 (NP)
A/pintail/Aomori/422/07 H1N1	90.4–99.9	A/garganey/SanJiang/160/06 H5N2
A/pintail/Aomori/422/07 H1N1		A/mallard/Hokkaido/24/09 H5N1 (both viruses 99.5)
A/pintail/Aomori/794/08 H1N1		A/swine/Korea/C12/08 H5N2 (>98.8)
A/pintail/Akita/1265/08 H1N2
A/pintail/Akita/1353/08 H1N2
A/pintail/Akita/1364/08 H1N2
A/pintail/Miyagi/1472/08 H1N1
A/pintail/Aomori/1130/08 H1N3		A/garganey/SanJiang/160/06 H5N2 (97.7)
A/pintail/Aomori/1192/08 H5N9		A/baikal teal/Hongze/14/05 H11N9 A/duck/Hong Kong/MPS180/03 H4N6 (both viruses 97.2)

^aNucleotide sequence identity within each gene segment of our isolates; ^bidentity with genes of viruses from GenBank.