Table 2. Genetic variability detected by the comparison among the casein genes transcripts in llama and the dromedary camel cDNAs reported by Kappeler et al.

[15].

CSN1S1 (αs1-casein)				CSN2 (β-casein)				CSN1S2 (αs2-casein)				CSN3 (κ-casein)
Exon	Position	Llama	Dromedary	Exon	Position	Llama	Dromedary	Exon	Position	Llama	Dromedary	Exon	Position	Llama	Dromedary
	cDNAaa	LK999986	AJ012628		cDNAaa	LK999992	AJ012630		cDNAaa	LK999989	AJ012629		cDNAaa	LK999995	Y10082
1	51	G	a	1	45–46	ga	—	2	66–14	AA G Lys	AA A Lys	1	21	a	g
2	58	c	t	1	50–51	aa	tt	2	98–3	GCTAla	GTTVal	1	50	g	a
2	98–5	GC C Ala	GG T Ala	2	60	t	g	5	16821	TTA Leu	TTT Phe	3	135–14	GT C Val	GT T Val
4	16820	CAGGln	GAGGlu	2	90–7	C T G Leu	C G G Arg	6	22239	ACG Thr	ACA Thr	3	159–6	CT G Leu	CT A Leu
10	30766	ACGThr	AAGLys	3	1369	GCG Ala	GCC Ala	6	22841	TGT Cys	TGC Cys	5	20410	TGC Cys	TGT Cys
10	31067	GTAVal	GAAGlu	4	14613	GTGVal	TTGLeu	8	26654	GTTVal	GCTAla	5	20611	TGTCys	TTTPhe
10	32371	AGC Ser	AGT Ser	7	31067	ATT Ile	ATC Ile	9	35784	GTT Val	GTG Val	5	21614	GTA Val	GTG Val
12	396–39796	ATTIle	TATTyr	7	34378	CCT Pro	CCG Pro	9	36386	AAT Asn	AAC Asn	5	26430	TTT Phe	TTC Phe
15	482124	AAA Lys	AAG Lys	7	414102	ATCIle	ACCThr	9	38694	ATGMet	AGGArg	5	34858	TAT Tyr	TAC Tyr
15	483125	TTGLeu	CTGLeu	7	416103	GTCVal	ATCIle	9	38995	GTCVal	GCCAla	5	36062	GCA Ala	GCC Ala
19	604165	CAAGln	CCAPro	7	458117	CTALeu	GTAVal	13	501132	GAG Glu	GAA Glu	5	45092	CGT Arg	CGC Arg
19	690194	CACHis	TACTyr	7	545146	CACHis	TACTyr	17	719	t	g	5	506111	ATCIle	AACAsn
21	814	a	-	7	680191	CTTLeu	GTTVal	17	762	a	g	5	510112	CCC Pro	CCT Pro
21	821	a	g	7	701198	ATAIle	GTAVal	17	766–767	ca	tg	5	537121	GAA Glu	GAG Glu
21	838	t	c	7	745212	CTC Leu	CTT Leu	17	771	g	a	5	546124	GTC Val	GTT Val
21	842	t	c	9	826	c	a	17	777	g	a	5	558128	GCT Ala	GCC Ala
21	883	a	g		857	t	c	17	912/913	-	t	5	566131	GTAVal	GCAAla
21	988	a	c		869	g	a	17	965	g	a	5	618148	AGT Ser	AGC Ser
21	1172	c	t		871/872	-	t					5	651159	TCA Ser	TCG Ser
					882	g	a					5	678	t	g
					885	g	a					6	730	t	c
					892	t	c
					900	c	t
					972	a	g
					987	t	g
					990	g	a
					994	c	t
					1003	t	c
					1021	a	g
					1023	g	t
					1030/1031	-	a
					1045	g	t
					1065	g	a
					1089	t	c

Polymorphic nucleotides in the triplets are underlined, when they fall within the peptide leader they are also reported in Italics. Amino acid changes are showed in bold. Insertions/deletions are reported as dashes. Numbering is relative to the llamas cDNAs.