Table 2 Average nucleotide and amino acid distances among the 27 newly isolated alleles

K2P nucleotide distance

0.156 (0.010)

0.143 (0.009)

Exon 2

0.341 (0.034)

0.319 (0.031)

Exon 3

0.115 (0.014)

0.132 (0.014)

Exon 4

0.069 (0.011)

0.029 (0.006)

Poisson-corrected amino acid distance

0.243 (0.023)

0.229 (0.022)

α1

0.486 (0.062)

0.452 (0.056)

α2

0.213 (0.037)

0.240 (0.036)

α3

0.099 (0.026)

0.053 (0.015)