Pairwise minor intron conservation between various species. Bottom number is the number of minor introns conserved between the pair; top number is the number of conserved minor introns as a percentage of the minor introns present in the alignments for the associated species (the row species). For example, there are eight minor introns conserved between D. melanogaster and L. polyphemus, which is 88.9% of the Drosophila minor introns present in the alignment, but only 4.3% of the corresponding minor introns in Limulus. Full names of species are as follows: Homo sapiens, Gallus gallus, Xenopus tropicalis, Latimeria chalumnae, Asterias rubens, Limulus polyphemus, Ixodes scapularis, Apis mellifera, Drosophila melanogaster, Priapulus caudatus, Lingula anatina, Octopus sinensis, Acropora millepora, Basidiobolus meristosporus, Rhizophagus irregularis, Arabidopsis thaliana, Lupinus angustifolius, Nicotiana tabacum, Zea mays, Amborella trichopoda, Sphagnum fallax.