Isolation and characterization of Babesia pecorum sp. nov. from farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus)

Table 2 Position and nature of the nucleotide changes among the sequences of the new Babesia isolated from red deer and closely related Babesia sp.

Isolate reference	Seq. type	Nucleotide position (DQ159073 as reference)
Isolate reference	Seq. type	186	216	223	224	247	469	494	623	628	638	639	645	662	663	774	792	801	830	975	1229	1438	1451
262, 265, A2, A21	ST1	-	T	-	.	A	A	A	T	G	T	A	G	-	T	T	A	G	A	T	T	T	G
279, C32	ST2	.	.	.		.	T	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
A20	ST3	.	.	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	G	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232	ST4	.	.	.		G	.	.	.	.	-	G	.	.	A	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
DQ159073 B. sp. Xinjiang		.	.	.		.	T	.	C	.	.	G	T	G	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	A	.
FJ213577 Giraffe 544		T	C	T		.	T	.	.	C	.	T	T	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
FJ213578 Giraffe 0105		T	C	T		.	T	.	.	C	.	C	T	.	.	C	G	.	.	C	C	.	.
FJ213580 Giraffe 229		T	C	T		.	T	G	.	C	.	T	T	.	.	.	.	A	G	.	.	.	A
FJ213581 Roan 571		T	C	T		.	T	G	.	C	.	T	T	.	.	.	.	A	.	.	.	.	.
156, 188, 312, A4, A39, A54, A55, A56, A65	ST1 or ST2								.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
A3, A64	ST5								.	.	.	.	T	.	.	.	.	.	.
191, A66	ST6								.	.	.	G	.	.	A	.	.	.	.

Complete sequences from this study are presented first and compared to complete sequences from the related Babesia (Babesia sp. Xinjiang from China and Babesia from giraffe and roan antelope in South Africa). The nucleotide position refers to the sequence DQ159073. Partial sequences from the Babesia isolated from red deer were compared between nucleotide positions 560 and 935. Dots (.) indicate sequence identity with the ST1 sequence. Dashes (?) indicate a deletion. Seq. type: sequence type.

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