Table 3.

New motifs detected upstream of retrogenes expressed in adult testis.

# a	Motif logo b	Multilevel consensus sequence c	Occurrences	P value (Fisher’s exact test)
TA1		TBGHYTKGGSCA	18	< 1 × 10−5
TA2		GCKCCAGYSAA	10	< 1 × 10−6
TS1		CTSWGTGCM	7	< 1 × 10−4
TS2		SACMRWGSMMWG	8	< 1 × 10−4
TS3		YGSMYCHTGYKGMCC	32	< 1 × 10−10
TS4		CCSCTGCYSVTYCSC	18	< 1 × 10−10

^aOver-represented motifs detected in the data sets of 48 retrogenes with expression in adult testis (motifs TA1 and TA2),14 retrogenes expressed only in adult testis based on EST and cDNA library data (motifs TS1 and TS2), and 34 retrogenes with expressed only in the testis based on Fly Atlas data (motifs TS1 and TS2)

^bLogos were created using WebLogo 3 [35; 36]

^cDegenerate bases are represented using IUPAC letters