Evolutionary Strata on the Mouse X Chromosome Correspond to Strata on the Human X Chromosome

Table 1.

Sequence Divergence and Assigned Strata for X-Y Gene Pairs, Mus musculus




Gene pair

cM position on mouse Xa

Mouse sequence compared (nt)

Ks (s.d.)b

Mouse stratumc

Human stratumd
A Sox3/Srye 24.5 231 1.587 (0.7066) 1 1
B Rbmx/y NA 1092 0.986 (0.1595) 1 1
C Smcx/y 64.0 4608 0.966 (0.0646) 1 2
H Eif2s3x/y 32.0 1419 0.758 (0.0935) 2 NA
D Ube1x/Ube1y1 5.7 3174 0.739 (0.0605) 2 2
E Usp9x/y 5.5 7623 0.579 (0.0333) 3 3
F Zfx/y-2 34.8 2343 0.569 (0.0603) 3 3
G
Utx/y
5.5
3543
0.467 (0.0389)
3
3
  • a Mouse Genome Database, Mouse Genome Informatics Web Site, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, http://www.informatics.jax.org, February 2003

  • b Ks: synonymous substitutions per synonymous site and standard deviation calculated using a modification of Li's (1993) method implemented in the “diverge” program in the GCG software package (Wisconsin Package Version 10.3, Accelrys)

  • c Strata based on Ks distances between X-Y gene pairs

  • d Strata correspond to Lahn and Page (1999)

  • e HMG box sequences only

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