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Table 1. Branch-site tests for positive selection on spike (S) protein by comparing foreground MERS-CoV (from human and camel) with background MERS-CoV (from bat and hedgehog).

	lnL MA’	lnL MA	P value	Positively selected sites (PSS)^#
S	−16251.74	−16207.52	<0.001	141R, 270Y^, 419S^, 436N^, 472S^, 479L^, 511R^*, 521N^, 775S^*
N	−4449.82	−4449.64	p > 0.05	NULL
M	−2051.31	−2051.14	p > 0.05	NULL
E	−703.78	−703.17	p > 0.05	8Q, 11S, 56I
8	−1022.67	−1018.75	p < 0.01	NS
5	−2583.27	−2583.27	p > 0.05	NULL
4b	−2659.78	−2659.76	p > 0.05	NULL
4a	−1056.27	−1056.27	p > 0.05	NULL
3	−1165.51	−1165.50	p > 0.05	NULL

^#Only PSSs with post posterior probability (PP) > 0.9 are shown. *Means PP > 0.95, **means PP > 0.99. P value was estimated using χ² tests with with degree of freedom = 1.