Table 2.
The Longest Stretches of Identical Sequence Shared by mt Genes in the Pig Lice and the Human Lice, Which Have Fragmented mt Genomes, and Four Other Species of Bilateral Animals That Have the Typical Unfragmented mt Genomes
| Pairs of Genes | The Longest Stretches of Identical Sequence Shared (bp) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hs | Ha | Pc | Pp | Ph | Bm | Cb | Hm | Dy | ||
| trnL1 | trnL2 | 16, 10, 9 | 16, 10, 9 | 33, 32 | 35, 32 | 33, 32 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 10 |
| trnT | trnP | 26 | 26 | 7 | NA | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| atp8 | nad2 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 14 |
| nad4 | nad5 | 12 | 12 | 127, 30 | NA | 127, 30 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 16 |
| rrnL | nad5 | 11 | 10 | 99 | 10 | 99 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 15 |
| cox1 | nad4L | 11 | 11 | 10 | 29 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 13 |
| rrnL | nad2 | 10 | 11 | 26 | 10 | 26 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 13 |
| atp8 | trnG | 6 | 6 | 26 | 9 | 26 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| trnR | trnG | 5 | 5 | 28, 14 | 32, 26 | 28, 14 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| trnI | trnT | 6 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
Note.—Hs, Haematopinus suis (domestic pig louse); Ha, H. apri (wild pig louse); Pc, Pediculus capitis (human head louse); Pp, Pthirus pubis (human pubic louse); Ph, P. humanus (human body louse); Bm, Bothriometopus macrocnemis (screamer louse); Cb, Campanulotes bidentatus (pigeon louse); Hm, Heterodoxus macropus (wallaby louse); Dy, Drosophila yakuba (fruit fly). Stretches of shared identical sequences much longer than expected are in bold.