Chinese woodchucks with different susceptibility to WHV infection differ in their genetic background exemplified by cytochrome B and MHC-DRB molecules

Table 3 Genetic distances of the 8 mitochondrial cytochrome B alleles from M. himalayana

Allele	Allele								Xining	Yushu
Allele	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	Xining	Yushu
A		0.000	0.000	0.003	0.004	0.003	0.003	0.000	0.000	0.006
B	0.000		0.000	0.003	0.004	0.003	0.003	0.000	0.000	0.006
C	0.000	0.000		0.003	0.004	0.003	0.003	0.000	0.000	0.006
D	0.003	0.003	0.003		0.005	0.004	0.004	0.003	0.003	0.007
E	0.006	0.006	0.006	0.009		0.005	0.005	0.004	0.004	0.007
F	0.003	0.003	0.003	0.006	0.009		0.004	0.003	0.003	0.007
G	0.003	0.003	0.003	0.006	0.009	0.006		0.003	0.003	0.007
H	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.003	0.006	0.003	0.003		0.000	0.006
Xining*	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.003	0.006	0.003	0.003	0.000		0.012
Yushu**	0.012	0.012	0.012	0.015	0.018	0.015	0.015	0.012	0.006

Estimates of the genetic distances and standard errors are presented above and below the diagonal, respectively
*The accession number of cytochrome B gene sequences of M. himalayana Xining isolates is GQ329721
**The accession number of cytochrome B gene sequences of M. himalayana from Yushu, Qinghai, China is AF143928
The genetic distance among M. himalayana was calculated using the 2 published sequences(M. himalayana from Xining GQ329721 and M. himalayana from Yushu AF143928) and the 8 obtained alleles of cytochrome B

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