Table 2. Analysis of the sequences immediately flanking the three potential start codons (ATG1, ATG2 and ATG3 in Figure 1) identified in the fut8 cDNA.

	Position upstream of the start codon
	-10	-9	-8	-7	-6	-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	AUG
Consensus sequence 1	A	A/U	A/U/C	A/U/C	A/U/G	U	A/C	A	A	A	AUG
Consensus sequence 2	A	U	A	A	A	U	A/C	A	A	C	AUG
	C	G	C	C	G	C	G	A	C	A	AUG (1)
	U	G	A	C	U	A	C	U	U	U	AUG (2)
	C	U	A	C	U	U	U	A	U	G	AUG (3)

¹Consensus sequence determined in this work (Table 1).

²Consensus sequence determined by Cavener and Ray (1991) [41] for invertebrates.