Table 2. Comparison of ball python and Burmese python genomic and protein sequences for melanogenesis genes.

Region	Gene	Total nucleotide sequence aligned (bp)	Nucleotide identity (%)	Amino acid identity (%)
Coding	TYR	1,591	98.5	99.6
	TYRP1	1,584	99.2	99.6
	TYRP2	1,473	98.3	99.1
	OCA2	2,577	98.9	99.7
	SLC7A11	1,506	98.7	99.7
	SLC24A5	1,379	98.2	99.5
	SLC45A2	1,557	97.2	98.9
Non-coding	TYR	577	96.9	(not applicable)
	TYRP1	1,160	97.0
	TYRP2	1,060	97.9
	OCA2	2,154	98.5
	SLC7A11	3,407	97.9
	SLC24A5	1,335	97.9
	SLC45A2	999	97.0