Two Large Families of Chemoreceptor Genes in the NematodesCaenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae Reveal Extensive Gene Duplication, Diversification, Movement, and Intron Loss

Table 1.

Comparison of C. briggsae Chemoreceptor Genes with Their C. elegans Orthologs in thestrFamily

C. briggsae gene number C. elegans gene number Encoded amino acid identity (%) Exon DNA identity (%) Ks ± s.e. Ka ± s.e. Introns
G47M22.a F58G4.2 87 77 1.90 ± 0.38 0.09 ± 0.01 6 shared
G47M22.b F58G4.7 87 78 2.22 ± 0.61 0.09 ± 0.01 5 shared, G47M22.b lost intron h
G47M22.c F58G4.6 81 75 2.74 ± 1.19 0.12 ± 0.01 7 shared
G47M22.d F58G4.5 81 74 NC 0.13 ± 0.01 6 shared
G47M22.e C09H5.9 87 78 1.42 ± 0.21 0.09 ± 0.01 5 shared
G47M22.f and  G47M22.g C09H5.8* 68 and 74 69 and 72 1.84 ± 0.34 0.18 ± 0.02 5 shared
G47M22.h M01D1.1 72 69 NC 0.19 ± 0.02 6 shared, G47M22.h lost intron d
G47M22.i no ortholog
G47M22.j C09H5.6 80 74 NC 0.12 ± 0.01 4 shared
G47M22.k C09H5.5 85 73 NC 0.12 ± 0.02 2 shared
G45J08.a C06B3.9 58 64 1.81 ± 0.36 0.33 ± 0.03 4 shared
G45J08.b* C06B3.1* 61 64 2.22 ± 0.75 0.30 ± 0.03 3 shared
G36C02.a* C31E10.1* 57 62 NC 0.34 ± 0.03 2 shared, G36C02.a lost introns g and h
  • The carboxy-terminal exon region was excluded from most comparisons because it is unalignable in the str family.

  • (*) Certain or likely pseudogenes.

  • (NC) KsKaCalc cannot estimate.

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