Table 3.

Base Conservation of the Intergenic Regions of the Tilapia HoxA Cluster


Intergenic fragment

% of total noncoding bases

% identified as CNS

% described in literature

% of total CNSs
Evx-13 13 3 0 4
13-11 14 4 0 7
11-10 9 9 0 8
10-9 7 9 0 6
9-7 6 13 12 8
7-5 8 14 4 11
5-4 13 10 4 14
4-3 17 9 0 16
3-2 7 23 10 17
2-1
6
14
14
9

[i] Column 1: considered intergenic fragment. Column 2: percentage of total noncoding bases of the tilapia HoxA cluster represented by the intergenic region. Column 3: percentage of the intergenic fragment identified as CNS by our analyses. Column 4: percentage of the intergenic fragment previously described in literature as involved in Hox genes regulation. Column 5: percentage of total CNSs present in this particular intergenic fragment.