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Table 4 Zmat2 pseudogenes

From: Zmat2 in mammals: conservation and diversification among genes and Pseudogenes

Species

Pseudogenes

Exons present

Nucleotide identity with mouse Zmat2 (%)

ZMAT2 ORF

Amino acid identity with authentic ZMAT2 (%)

rat

3

1–6, 6, 6

88.4, 87.4, 87.4

none

guinea pig

1

4–6

80.1

none

rabbit

1

*1–6

87.7

none

dog

1

1–6

88.3

123 AA

99.2

dolphin

4

1–6

93.4, 83.8, 89.8, 86.2

199 AA, 199 AA, 90 AA, none

100, 93.0, 83.3

megabat

1

1–6

87.1

none

microbat

2

1–6

89.5, 81.5

199 AA, none

91.0

opossum

1

1–6

86.6

96 AA

77.1

platypus

1

#2, 3

89.8, 87.7

none

marmoset

3

1–6, 1–6, **1–6

91.8, 89.2, 90.9

123 AA, 199 AA, none

97.6, 98.5

  1. *Unreadable sequence of ~ 406 base pairs separates exons 2 and 3
  2. #Located on different contigs in genome
  3. **Alu element separates exons 3 and 4