Country Alignment length (residues) Identity (*) (residues) Strongly similar (:) (residues) Weakly similar (.) (residues) Different (residues) *Brazil and USA 2518 258 (10.25%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 2260 (89.75%) Canada 919 439 (47.77%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 480 (52.23%) China 926 265 (28.62%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 661 (71.38%) India 986 259 (26.275) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 727 (73.73%) Japan 1034 345 (33.37%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 689 (66.63%) South Korea 975 219 (22.46%) 0 (0.00%) 0 (0.00%) 756 (77.54%)

Table 2: Carlaviral coat protein nucleotide sequence alignment data generated for six countries by ClustalW program of Pole Bioinformatique Lyonnais software.