Table 2 Percentage nucleotide identity of Ugandan whitefly sequences (from B. tabaci and non-tabaci species) to their closest relatives in GenBank.

From: African ancestry of New World, Bemisia tabaci-whitefly species

Bemisia tabaci and non-tabaci species

Number of sequences

Closest relative GenBank accession no.

% sequence identity with closest relative

SSA1

19

AY903463

98.4‒100%

SSA2

4

AY057173

99.6%

SSA6

5

AY903561

99.7‒99.9%

SSA9

3

AY903463

92.8‒93.5%

SSA10

11

FN821787

85.3‒86.0%

SSA11

3

FN821787

84.8%

SSA12

18

JX993192

93.9‒94.1%

SSA13

2

EU760753

94.6‒94.7

MEAM1

1

KC661294

99.9%

MEAM2

7

AJ550177

97.1%

MED

32

EU760732

96.5‒99.9%

Indian Ocean

3

AY903538

99.1‒99.7%

B. Uganda1

13

AY903575

99.6‒100%

  1. The new putative species identified in this study appear in bold text. The abbreviations for the whitefly species are as follows: SSA is sub-Saharan Africa, MEAM is Middle East-Asia Minor, MED is Mediterranean and B. Uganda 1 is Bemisia Uganda 1.