Table 1.

Levels of identity (%) of nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences for EE0.6, IREBP, and ZOV3 among the chicken, the emu, and the ostrich

Species compared	EE0.6, % [bp]	IREBP, % [bp]	ZOV3, % [bp]
Chicken and emu	74  [510]	92  [220]	81  [327]
		(94)	(72)
Chicken and ostrich	71  [635]	90  [123]	80  [325]
		(100)	(73)
Ostrich and emu	88  [488]	NC	94  [317]
			(95)

Lengths of aligned nucleotide sequences compared are shown in brackets. Levels of identity of deduced amino acid sequences are shown in parentheses. For IREBP, sequences of two exons in 2,686-bp genomic sequence for the emu and that of one exon in a 1,075-bp genomic sequence for the ostrich are used for comparison. For ZOV3, sequences of two exons in 2,206 bp for the emu and those of two exons in 3,431 bp for the ostrich are used for comparison. 

NC, not compared because sequences of exons in cloned genomic fragments are unrelated.