Insights into the Musa genome: Syntenic relationships to rice and between Musa species

BMC Genomics

Table 3 Level of synonymous substitution (K_s) between homologous sequences in M. acuminata and M. balbisiana.

Locus	Length	K_s	Predicted function
L4	1065	0.0496	GDSL-motif lipase/hydrolase family protein
L5	1401	0.0311	protein kinase family protein
L7	1341	0.0318	hypothetical protein
L9	1647	0.0252	protein kinase family protein
L11	825	0.0323	protein kinase-related
L13	2901	0.0420	leucine-rich repeat-containing protein kinase family protein
L15	1140	0.0435	gibberellin 20-oxidase family protein
L16	1899	0.0342	glucose-inhibited division A family protein
L18 *	1371	0.0960	leucine rich repeat family protein
L20	4119	0.0231	transcriptional repressor protein-related
L23	1941	0.0369	protein kinase family protein
L24	1737	0.0413	exostosin family protein
L26	2145	0.0461	kinesin light chain-related
K_s mean	23532	0.0410
Concatenation K_s	23532	0.0349

* Alignments between the M. acuminata gene and the orthologous sequence on the M. balbisiana sequence were identified by BLAST

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