The Large srh Family of Chemoreceptor Genes in Caenorhabditis Nematodes Reveals Processes of Genome Evolution Involving Large Duplications and Deletions and Intron Gains and Losses

Table 1.

Comparison of C. briggsae Chemoreceptor Genes with theirC. elegans Orthologs in thesrh Family

Gene Encoded amino acid identity (%) Coding DNA identity (%) K s ±s.e. K a ±s.e. K s /K a ratio Introns
C. briggsae C. elegans
G42B20.a srh-1/T11F9.a 77 73 1.80 ± 0.35 0.15 ± 0.02 12.0 3 shared
G42B20.b srh-9/T11F9.b* 61 64 2.21 ± 0.66 0.30 ± 0.03 7.4 3 shared
G01B4.a srh-16/F55C5.9 68 70 2.11 ± 0.20 0.20 ± 0.02 10.6 6 shared
G44A22.a* srh-39/C06A8.7 74 71 1.64 ± 0.27 0.19 ± 0.02 8.6 5 shared
G22P10.a srh-49/C10G11.4 66 68 1.50 ± 0.23 0.26 ± 0.02 5.8 2 shared
G22P10.b srh-51/C10G11.3 74 68 1.36 ± 0.19 0.18 ± 0.02 7.5 1 shared;  G22P10.b  lost a
G36E19.a ortholog lost
G42E09.a srh-75/T04C12.2 69 70 1.86 ± 0.36 0.21 ± 0.02 8.9 3 shared
G41C04.a srh-129/F14F9.7 66 67 2.02 ± 0.43 0.26 ± 0.02 7.8 2 shared
G41C04.b srh-130/F14F9.1 75 70 2.07 ± 0.47 0.20 ± 0.02 10.4 3 shared
G45F20.a ortholog lost
G45F20.b srh-163/D1054.12a* 56 63 1.46 ± 0.22 0.35 ± 0.03 4.2 2 shared;  G45F20.b  lost c
G45F20.c srh-184/D1054.12b 75 73 1.18 ± 0.15 0.18 ± 0.02 6.5 3 shared
G45C15.a srh-268/C54F6.1 56 62 1.93 ± 0.40 0.36 ± 0.03 5.4 3 shared
G45C15.b srh-268/C54F6.1 58 65 1.31 ± 0.18 0.33 ± 0.03 4.0 3 shared
G21D19.a srh-275/C03G6.7 74 70 1.74 ± 0.32 0.20 ± 0.02 8.7 2 shared
G21D19.b,c,d*,e* orthologs lost
 Averages 68 68 1.73 0.23 7.7
  • (*) Pseudogenes.

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  1. Genome Res. 10: 192-203

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