Evolutionary dynamics of the LTR retrotransposons roo and rooA inferred from twelve complete Drosophila genomes

Table 2 Average protein similarity between roo elements

	Dsec	Dmel	Dyak	Dana	Dwil	Dmoj
Dsec	99.1	98	91.9	62.5	61	61.8
Dmel		99	91.8	61.9	59	61.3
Dyak			100	62.3	60.6	63.2
Dana				94.1	49.7	54.4
Dwil					93.1	53.9
Dmoj						89.8

The 123 roo elements with a coding sequence length longer than 1180 aa were used to estimate the amino acid similarity in percent for every pair of these elements using protdist from the PHYLIP package [51]. Dsec: D. sechellia; Dmel: D. melanogaster; Dyak: D. yakuba; Dana: D. ananassae; Dwil: D. willistoni; Dmoj: D. mojavensis

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