Table 5 Summary of highly conserved and lineage-specific elements. The 6 categories of conserved elements are defined in Table 4.
From: Evolution and comparative analysis of the MHC Class III inflammatory region
Reference sequence | Class label | Number of elements | Length range (min-max) | Median length | Total number of bases | Mean eutherian % identity | Mean marsupial % identity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wallaby | HCE | 8 | 7–190 | 13 | 275 | 95.5 | 99.0 |
|  | MSE | 17 | 42–146 | 89 | 1413 | 4.7 | 93.3 |
|  | UIO | 7 | 15–174 | 44 | 434 | 80.9 | 0.7 |
Human | ESE | 30 | 10–104 | 28.5 | 1121 | 88.1 | 2.8 |