Trypanosoma cruzi mitochondrial maxicircles display species- and strain-specific variation and a conserved element in the non-coding region

Table 2 Average percent identities among CL Brener, Esmeraldo,T. brucei and L. tarentolae rRNAs, gene coding regions and inferred protein sequences

		Edited	Non-edited	Non-edited	Entire coding
Comparison	rRNAs	Genes	Genes	Proteins	region
CL Brener vs. Esmeraldo	92.6%	86.2%	89.9%	81.7%	88.2%
CL Brener vs. T. brucei	79.6%	57.1%	77.8%	79.3%	73.3%
Esmeraldo vs. T. brucei	79.8%	55.2%	78.5%	81.0%**	72.5%
CL Brener vs. L. tarentolae	78.6%	41.8%*	75.4%	76.0%	65.2%
Esmeraldo vs. L. tarentoae	78.9%	41.6%*	76.0%	67.5%	64.7%
T. brucei vs. L. tarentolae	78.0%	42.4%*	76.6%	76.4%	64.7%

Non-edited genes include ND5, ND4,COI,COII,ND1,MURF1,MURF2,Cyb
Extensively-edited genes include COIII, ATPase6, ND7, ND8, ND9, CR4, CR5, RPS12
MURF5 and CR3 were not included because both 5'- and 3'-gene boundaries are uncertain
* COIII, ND7 and ATPase6 were not included in Lt comparisons due to different editing patterns
** ND5 not included due to frameshifts in Esmeraldo
Entire coding region includes contiguous sequence from the start of 12S rRNA to the end of ND5

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