Table 2.

Protein Domain Conservation in Model Organisms

Species No. of domains[ii] Domains conserved in
C. elegans Drosophila yeast human ESTs
C. elegans 13169 100%3133 (24%)3741 (28%)5305 (40%)
Drosophila 26111905 (73%) 100%1264 (48%)2042 (78%)

[i] Only amino acid sequence similarities with the BLAST2 score higher than 90 are reported.

[ii] The FASTA files of the domains in both model organisms is available on-line athttp://www.sequana.com/publications/model_organisms.