Intrahost Diversity of Feline Coronavirus: A Consensus between the Circulating Virulent/Avirulent Strains and the Internal Mutation Hypotheses?

Table 1

Feline coronavirus membrane (M) gene sequence identities (positions from 26293 to 26907 regarding strain FCoV UU47) from different samples of a same cat with FIP.

Cat	% sequence identity^a	SD	Number of sequences	GenBank accession number
Cat 5	99.9	0.001	𝑛=6	JQ627055-60
Cat 6	98.0	0.028	𝑛=6	JQ627061-66
Cat 7	99.6	0.000	𝑛=2	JQ627067-68
Cat 8	100.0	0.000	𝑛=7	JQ627069-75
Cat 11	99.9	0.001	𝑛=7	JQ627078-84
Cat 12	99.9	0.001	𝑛=3	JQ627085-87

aThe percentage of the sequence identity was determined by comparison with the consensus sequences of the FCoV obtained from different samples of the same cat. SD: standard deviation.