Table III.

Evaluation of the monocot groups of SASs These SASs had a significant match with sequences in GenBank.

	Fast-Evolving Sequencesa	Monocot Specific
Categories		Motifs/Domainsb	Proteinsc
Transposons	29	0	0
Transcription factors	17	2	0
Stress and defense responses	28	1	2
Hypothetical rice proteins	48	9	28
Others	42	2	7
Total	164	14	37

^aFast-evolving sequences were identified according to the anchor scheme described in Figure 4

^bMonocot-specific motifs/domains refer to sequences encoding approximately 50 or more amino acids, which were not detected as fast-evolving sequences

^cMonocot-specific proteins refer to proteins lacking any similar sequences in eudicots based on BLAST comparison. See also Supplemental Table III