Table 2.

The longest identical sequences shared by mitochondrial genes of the chimpanzee louse and the human lice, which have fragmented mitochondrial genomes, and six other species of animals, which have typical mitochondrial genomes

Pair of gene		The longest shared identical sequences (bp)
		Ps	Pc	Ph	Pp	Bm	Cb	Hm	Dy	Ce	Hs
trnL 1	trnL 2	32, 34	32, 33	32, 33	32, 35	7	6	7	10	6	6
trnG	trnR	10	14, 28	14, 28	26, 32	5	6	7	6	8	6
trnI	trnT	7	6	6	16	6	5	7	7	9	6
cox1	nad4L	11	10	10	29	13	11	14	13	12	10
nad5	rrnL	101	99	99	10	12	14	13	15	16	10
nad2	rrnL	11	26	26	10	13	11	14	13	12	10
cox1	nad3	49	11	10	11	13	11	12	13	11	12
atp8	cob	54	26	26	9	10	11	11	12	N.A.	9
nad4	nad5	31, 133	30, 130	30, 130	N.A.	13	15	15	16	14	11

Shared identical sequences longer than expected by chance are in bold

Ps Pediculus schaeffi (chimpanzee louse), Pc Pediculus capitis (human head louse), Ph Pediculus humanus (human body louse), Pp Pthirus pubis (human pubic louse), Bm Bothriometopus macrocnemis (screamer louse), Cb Campanulotes bidentatus (pigeon louse), Hm Heterodoxus macropus (wallaby louse), Dy Drosophila yakuba (fruitfly), Ce Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm), Hs Homo sapiens (human)