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Table 2.

Comparison of modern sequences to predicted ancestor





Deletions

Insertions

Substitutions
Species
Size of region (kb) (a)
Nonrepetitive %GC-content (b)
% of ancestor lost (c)
% of extant species′ bases acquired (nonrepetitive only) (d)
% of extant species′ bases changed (expected # substitutions per site) (e)
Reconstructed Boreoeutherian ancestor 1105 37.5 N/A N/A N/A
Human 1296 37.3 16.2 28.6 (9.1) 8.7 (13.4)
Chimpanzee 1278 37.4 16.6 28.6 (9.0) 8.7 (13.4)
Gorilla 1264 37.4 17.6 28.0 (9.1) 8.8 (13.5)
Baboon 1267 37.5 17.0 27.2 (9.5) 9.2 (14.0)
Orangutan 1300 37.3 17.0 28.4 (8.9) 8.7 (13.5)
Vervet 1243 37.5 17.9 27.4 (9.5) 9.2 (14.1)
Macaque 1260 37.5 17.0 27.9 (9.9) 9.2 (14.1)
Lemur 1043 38.2 23.6 19.5 (11.3) 9.6 (13.1)
Mouse-lemur 1071 37.7 23.3 21.5 (12.3) 9.9 (13.9)
Mouse 1147 39.4 40.9 43.0 (24.1) 15.9 (35.6)
Rat 1277 39.6 40.9 49.0 (25.3) 14.4 (36.3)
Rabbit 1379 40.9 31.3 47.2 (31.1) 10.4 (23.2)
Cat 1217 38.2 19.8 27.2 (11.6) 9.7 (14.8)
Dog 1125 39.7 23.2 24.3 (12.6) 11.6 (17.4)
Cow 1317 37.4 20.8 33.9 (12.2) 10.0 (17.1)
Pig 1209 37.0 21.2 26.9 (12.2) 10.6 (16.3)
Horse 1133 38.7 15.0 17.9 (9.7) 8.7 (11.5)
Hedgehog 1545 39.8 46.9 63.2 (57.9) 8.2 (27.1)
Armadillo
1397
39.5
25.7
41.3 (37.0)
9.6 (18.7)
  • Listed are some properties of sequences of the extant species in the greater-CFTR locus and the predicted changes they incurred during evolution from the Boreoeutherian ancestral sequence. (a) Length of sequence. (b) Fraction of nonrepetitive bases that are G or C. (c) Deletions: percentage of the ancestral sequence lost in each species. (d) Insertions: percentage of extant species′ sequence that was inserted since the reconstructed ancestor (in parentheses, percentage of extant species′ sequence that resulted from insertions of nonrepetitive sequences, using RepeatMasker to identify repetitive sequences.) The high fraction of nonrepetitive inserted bases in rabbit and hedgehog is most likely due to lack of complete RepeatMasker libraries for the transposons specific to these species. (e) Substitutions: percentage of extant species′ bases that were derived from an ancestral base but differ from that base (this is different from the standard percentage identity measure, where only aligned bases are considered). In parentheses, the expected number of substitutions per site under a Kimura 2-parameter model (Kimura 1980) is given, here using only the aligned bases.

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