ORF positions of new genomes were verified using the ORF finder
and compared with those in the representative sequence (GenBank
KP998539). All nucleotide and amino acid sequences of GII.17 strains
and other GII NoV reference strains were also compared to investigate
their differences using BioEdit (version 7.0.1) and DNASTAR Lasergene
MegAlign program (DNASTAR Inc., WI, USA). Multiple alignments of
all GII.17 genomes and capsid protein sequences were also performed