Unusual conservation among genes encoding small secreted salivary gland proteins from a gall midge

Table 1 Similarity of different regions among cDNAs from different gene groups

Gene group	No. of Seq.	5'-Untranslated region (5'-UTR)			Signal peptide coding region (SPCR)			Mature protein coding region (MPCR)			3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR)
		Length	Score AVE	Score range	Length	Score AVE	Score range	Length	Score AVE	Score range	Length	Score AVE	Score range
SSSGP-1	6	58 - 59	92	87 - 98	57	94	92 - 98	252 - 484	49	13 - 100	186 - 258	88	79 - 94
SSSGP-2	15	6 - 198	84	52 - 100	60	87	78 - 95	258 - 462	10	3 - 57	77 - 269	81	57 - 92
SSSGP-3	4	31 - 36	87	80 - 100	54	80	70 - 96	189 - 312	22	6 - 71	64 - 210	73	49 - 98
SSSGP-4	7	37 - 47	94	83 - 100	75	80	58 - 93	360 - 636	10	4 - 27	121 - 222	52	14 - 82
SSSGP-5	3	81 - 87	94	93 - 95	69	96	95 - 97	4 - 279	15	11 - 19	71 - 124	65	48 - 85
SSSGP-6	2	24 - 25	87	87	63	95	95	249 - 255	79	79	57 - 60	91	91
SSSGP-31	4	52 - 65	93	88 - 97	39	97	94 - 100	213 - 330	16	8 - 28	90 - 122	92	85 - 96

Score average (AVE) and score range were derived by pair-wise comparison (Materials and Methods). Except for the two members from group SSSGP-6, the score average for MPCR is at least 40% less than those for other regions. The two members from group SSSGP-6 are likely relatively recent duplicates since they share an overall 83% sequence identity. The score average for these two members is 13% less than those for other regions.

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