Table 3:

Evaluation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence identity of Atlantic sturgeon and shortnose sturgeon AHR1 to that of four other fishes (white sturgeon, lake sturgeon, Atlantic killifish, and zebrafish) and two avian species (quail and albatross). Genbank Accession No. KJ420394, KM236089, NM_001323184 (quail), AB106109 (albatross), AF024591 (killifish), and AF258854 (zebrafish, AHR1B) respectively. The LALIGN program in http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/psa/lalign/nucleotide.html was used for this analysis.

	Nucleotide Identity (%)
	Shortnose sturgeon	White sturgeon	Lake sturgeon	Quail	Albatross	Atlantic killifish	Zebrafish
Atlantic sturgeon	97.5	96.6	91.9	64.3	64.9	58.6	59.2
Shortnose sturgeon		98.2	93.5	64.6	65.0	58.9	59.7
White sturgeon			93.3	64.4	64.7	59.1	59.6
Lake sturgeon				63.1	63.0	60.7	59.8
Quail					91.1	59.7	58.2
Albatross						59.1	58.5
Atlantic killifish							55.6
	Amino Acid Identity (%)
	Shortnose sturgeon	White sturgeon	Lake sturgeon	Quail	Albatross	Atlantic killifish	Zebrafish
Atlantic sturgeon	98.2	98.2	93.3	78.9	79.0	73.6	71.1
Shortnose sturgeon		99.3	94.4	78.4	78.9	71.9	70.9
White sturgeon			94.5	79.0	79.3	74.5	70.9
Lake sturgeon				76.2	76.4	68.5	71.0
Quail					97.4	77.9	73.2
Albatross						78.1	67.3
Atlantic killifish							74.0