Headings for Reptile Tables.
Table 1. Length (in amino acids), start and stop codons of reptile mitochondrial proteincoding genes
The information given in this table incorporates a number of changes made to the start and stop
points of these genes in order to provide consistency between reptile mitochondrial (mt) genomes.
The length of each gene includes the start but not the stop codon (i.e. these genes are treated as
ending after the last amino acid-encoding codon). The lengths of NADH3 and NADH4L do not
include the extra nucleotides found in some of the turtles and which are not translated. For full
taxon names (plus Latin names, references, accession and GI numbers, database record and
submission dates and, where appropriate, revision dates), see ‘SI5 - Reptile Taxa List’ file. (L) =
encoded by the L strand. T-- = incomplete stop codon. R and Y (in the range columns) indicate
purine (A or G) and pyrimidine (C or T) respectively. Gray shading - this feature (length, start or
stop codon) is conserved. Purple shading - this feature is conserved in most of the taxa; those that
differ are shaded. Yellow shading - this feature of the snake falls outside the range of the other
reptiles.
Table 2. Length (in nucleotides) of reptile mitochondrial control regions, intergenic spacers
and complete genomes
The information given in this table incorporates many changes made to the start and stop points of
these genes in order to provide consistency between reptile mitochondrial (mt) genomes. The
lengths of the intergenic spacers include the stop codons of the protein-coding genes (i.e. proteincoding genes are treated as ending after the last amino acid-encoding codon). For full taxon names
etc, see ‘SI5 - Reptile Taxa List’ file. (L) = encoded by the L strand. > = incomplete region/genome,
full length unknown. N/A = Not applicable (i.e. this taxon does not have this gene/region
arrangement). - = 0 (except in the range columns, in which ‘0’ is used while ‘-‘ is used to indicate
the range). x overlap = an overlap of x nucleotides in length. Unknown = the mt genome of this
taxon is incomplete and does not include this region. # Alligators 1&2 and Caiman = the order of
these genes is reversed (tRNA-Ser (AGY)/tRNA-His and tRNA-Phe/Control Region respectively).
Gray, purple and yellow shading - as for Table 1. Light gray shading - these features are conserved
as a result of the way the start and stop positions of the 12S and 16S rRNA genes and the control
region were determined.
Table 3. Length (in nucleotides) of reptile mitochondrial tRNA and rRNA genes
The information given in this table incorporates many changes made to the start and stop points of
these genes in order to provide consistency between reptile mitochondrial (mt) genomes. For full
taxon names etc, see ‘SI5 - Reptile Taxa List’ file. Both the single-letter and the three-letter code are
given for each tRNA (e.g. F, Phe). (L) = encoded by the L strand. N/A = Not applicable (i.e. this
taxon does not have this gene/region arrangement). > = incomplete region, full length unknown.
Purple and yellow shading - as for Table 1.
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