Table 1.

Abbreviations commonly used for conserved elements

Abbreviation	Full name	Organismal group	Reference
CNG	Conserved non-genic elements	Mammals	Dermitzakis et al., Nature 2002
UCE	Ultra conserved elements	Mammals, vertebrates	Bejerano et al., Science 2004
CNE	Conserved non-coding elements	vertebrates	Woolfe et al., Plos Biology 2005
SCE	Shuffled conserved elements	Vertebrates	Sanges et al., Genome Biology 2006
PCNE	Phylogenetically conserved non-coding elements	Vertebrates, vertebrates + amphioxus	Hufton et al., Genome Research 2009
rCNE	Regionally conserved non-coding elements	Mammals, fishes, tunicates	This work
vCNE	Vertebrate conserved non-coding elements	Vertebrates	This work
oCNE	Olfactores conserved non-coding elements	Vertebrates + tunicates	This work

The table indicates the abbreviations most commonly used to refer to conserved elements in this and other articles. For each acronym, we reported the full text, the group of organisms to which the elements are referring and the first article using it.