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Table 1 Intergenic sequences from tubulin tandem gene arrays in kinetoplastids

From: Evolution of Tubulin Gene Arrays in Trypanosomatid parasites: genomic restructuring in Leishmania

 

Species

Tandem gene arrayb:

  

Monotypic:

Alternating:

  

α-α

β-β

α-β

β-α

  

size

primers

accessiona

size

primers

accessiona

Size

primers

accessiona

size/bp

primers

accessiona

Genome

Trypanosoma brucei

X

  

x

  

326

-

Tb927.1.2340

631

-

Tb927.1.2330

 

Trypanosoma congolense

X

  

x

  

357

-

congo819f03.q1k

443

-

congo819f03.q1k

 

Trypanosoma cruzi

X

  

x

  

679

-

AF091836

932

-

M97956

 

Trypanosoma vivax

X

  

x

  

488

-

tviv1885f05.p1k

332

-

tviv1885f05.p1k

 

Leishmania major

920

-

LmjF13.0280

2253

-

LmjF33.0792

x

  

x

  
 

Leishmania infantum

958

-

LinJ13.0260

2283

-

contig4336

x

  

x

  
 

Leishmania braziliensis

904

-

-

1629

-

-

x

  

x

  

PCR

Trypanosoma cyclops

X

  

x

  

515

betaF/alphaR

DQ450538

645

betaF/alphaR

DQ450538

 

Trypanosoma grayi

X

  

x

  

521

betaF/alphaR

DQ450539

683

betaF/alphaR

DQ450539

 

Trypanosoma pestanai

X

  

x

  

611

senseα/antiβ

DQ450540

x

  
 

Crithidia deanei

X

  

x

  

527

betaF/betaR

DQ450532

x

  
 

Bodo saltans

X

  

x

  

608

senseα/antiβ

DQ450531

x

  
 

Parabodo caudatus

X

  

x

  

x

  

545

senseβ/antiα

DQ450537

 

Neobodo designis

X

  

x

  

390

senseα/antiβ

DQ450535

x

  
 

Herpetomonas megaseliae

X

  

x

  

x

  

1222

senseβ/antiα

DQ450536

 

Leishmania mexicana

917

senseα/antiα

DQ450541

1975

senseβ/antiβ

DQ450542

x

  

x

  
 

Crithidia fasciculata

927

senseα/antiα

DQ450533

1229

senseβ/antiβ

DQ450534

x

  

x

  
  1. aAccession numbers given for completed or draft genome sequences correspond to identifier tags in genome sequence browsers [66], except for T. cruzi. Accession numbers given for PCR sequences and T. cruzi correspond to GenBank accession numbers. Contigs were manually assembled for L. braziliensis, therefore no identifiers are available.
  2. b 'x' denotes an absence of any evidence for a given intergenic sequence, caused either by a failed reaction or a genuine absence (see text).