Conservation of regulatory sequences and gene expression patterns in the disintegrating Drosophila Hox gene complex

Table 2.

Characteristics of conserved noncoding sequences (CNS) detected with mVISTA in comparisons of non-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 (%)
CG1288-CG2520 18,333 mel/pse 127 6.93 (0.61) 43.48 (28.16) 86.31 30.12
mel/buz 65 3.55 (0.44) 45.26 (31.51) 86.30 16.05
pse/buz 67 3.65 (0.45) 42.44 (29.40) 86.81 15.59
CG17836-CG14290 10,921 mel/pse 46 4.21 (0.62) 45.02 (33.27) 82.67 18.96
mel/buz 18 1.65 (0.39) 39.61 (22.67) 82.88 6.53
pse/buz 22 2.01 (0.43) 42.09 (24.34) 84.34 8.48
CG31363 27,510 mel/pse 153 5.56 (0.45) 35.51 (14.95) 87.17 19.75
mel/buz 22 0.80 (0.17) 26.09 (3.94) 82.93 2.09
pse/buz 23 0.84 (0.17) 28.78 (7.70) 83.23 2.41
Total 56,764 mel/pse 326 5.74 (0.32) 39.96 (24.15) 86.09 22.95
non-Hox gene regions mel/buz 105 1.84 (0.18) 40.28 (27.50) 85.27 7.45


pse/buz
112
1.97 (0.19)
39.59 (25.88)
85.76
7.83
  • a Density = number of CNS per kilobase.

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