Table 1.
Characteristics of conserved noncoding sequences (CNS) detected with mVISTA in comparisons of Hox gene regions between D. melanogaster (mel), D. pseudoobscura (pse), and D. buzzatii (buz)
|
Region |
Noncoding nucleotides |
Species pair |
Number of CNS |
Densitya(SD) |
Mean size (nt) (SD) |
Mean nucleotide identity (%) |
Sequence in CNS (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lab | 19,227 | mel/pse | 129 | 6.71 (0.59) | 53.20 (34.03) | 87.69 | 35.69 |
| mel/buz | 73 | 3.80 (0.44) | 46.70 (24.35) | 87.33 | 17.73 | ||
| pse/buz | 84 | 4.37 (0.48) | 44.54 (27.05) | 88.08 | 19.46 | ||
| pb | 42,056 | mel/pse | 265 | 6.30 (0.39) | 55.04 (35.79) | 87.29 | 34.68 |
| mel/buz | 196 | 4.66 (0.33) | 41.88 (22.38) | 87.09 | 19.52 | ||
| pse/buz | 215 | 5.11 (0.35) | 42.92 (24.65) | 86.38 | 21.94 | ||
| abdA | 26,043 | mel/pse | 169 | 6.49 (0.50) | 59.29 (38.43) | 87.44 | 38.45 |
| mel/buz | 126 | 4.84 (0.43) | 45.98 (26.15) | 86.18 | 22.25 | ||
| pse/buz | 141 | 5.41 (0.46) | 46.11 (24.97) | 85.44 | 24.97 | ||
| Total | 87,326 | mel/pse | 563 | 6.45 (0.27) | 55.89 (36.23) | 87.42 | 36.03 |
| Hox gene regions | mel/buz | 395 | 4.52 (0.23) | 44.08 (24.04) | 86.83 | 19.94 | |
|
|
|
pse/buz
|
440
|
5.04 (0.24)
|
44.25 (25.53)
|
86.39
|
22.30
|
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↵a Density = number of CNS per kilobase.
