Table 4.

The list of miRNA genes present within the set of ultraconserved sequences between D. melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura longer than 50 bp


MicroRNA

Genomic location

Length of the uc-element

Reference
dme-mir-125 Downstream of CG10283 113 1
dme-mir-307 Intron of Mmp2 (CG1794) 92 1
dme-mir-9a Intergenic 89 1
dme-mir-100 Downstream of CG10283 86 1
dme-mir-2b-2 Intron of Spi (CG10334) 86 1
dme-mir-2a-2 Intron of Spi (CG10334) 83 1
dme-mir-279 Upstream of CG31044 75 1
dme-mir-280 Intergenic 69 2
dme-mir-iab-4* Within iab-4 RNA 63 1
dme-bantam Intergenic 59 1
dme-mir-219 Intergenic 59 2
dme-mir-9c* grp intron (CG17161) 58 1
dme-mir-287 Intergenic 55 2
dme-let-7 Intergenic 54 1
dme-mir-277 Downstream of Fmr1 (CG6203) 54 1
dme-mir-289 Intron of bru-3 (CG12478) 53 2
dme-mir-288
Intergenic
50
2

[i] microRNAs marked with an asterisk were also found in the Anopheles genome. References are (1) Aravin et al. 2003, (2) Lai et al. 2003. The full list of uc-elements can be found at http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/groups/mattick/drosophila_uc/.