TABLE 1.

Genomic positions of interparalog gene conversion tracts in the α-globin gene clusters of R. norvegicus and P. maniculatus

Genes	P-valuea	Alignment position	Length (bp)	Affected gene region
R. norvegicus
HBAT1; HBAT2	<0.001	1172–2676	1505	5′-UTR: 35/35 bp
				Exon 1: 95/95 bp
				Intron 1:115/115 bp
				Exon 2: 205/205 bp
				Intron 2: 32/185 bp
HBAT2; HBAT3	<0.010	3347–3618	272b	3′ flanking sequence
P. maniculatus
HBAT1; HBAT2	<0.001	1551–2540	990	5′-UTR: 35/35 bp
				Exon 1: 95/95 bp
				Intron 1: 124/124 bp
				Exon 2: 205/205 bp
				Intron 2: 8/173 bp

In each case the directionality of gene conversion is from the 5′ paralog to the neighboring 3′ paralog. No conversion tracts were identified in the HBA-T3 coding sequences of either species.

^aCalculated from the permutation test of Sawyer (1989).

^bThe conversion tract starts 390 bp downstream of the stop codon.