Table 1

Ribosomal protein-sequences and species included

Ribosomal protein

Length in alignment

# of variable sites

Occurrence*

Clade

Species

Common name

Occurrence***


RpL32

134

110

31

Nematoda

Caenorhabditis elegans

Roundworm

47

RpL11

133

71

29

Tardigrada

Hypsibius dujardini

Water bear

38


RpL13A

146

108

29

Collembola

Folsomia candida

Springtail

48

RpS8

34

15

29

Orchesella cincta

Springtail

7


RpS5

150

68

28

Insecta

Apis mellifera

Honeybee

48

RpS6

98

58

28

Drosophila melanogaster

Fruit fly

48

RpS7

168

128

28

Locusta migratoria

Migratory locust

47

RpL21

164

120

27

Acyrthosiphon pisum

Pea aphid

45

RpL24

52

40

27

Tribolium castaneum

Red flour beetle

44

RpS15

141

85

27

Plutella xylostella

Diamondback moth

44

RpS18

116

56

27

Toxoptera citricida

Brown citrus aphid

40

RpS23

140

64

27

Manduca sexta

Tobacco hornworm

38

RpL12

150

81

25

Culicoides sonorensis

Mosquito

36

RpL13

39

32

25

Glossina morsitans

Tsetse fly

35

RpL31

108

87

25

Ctenocephalides felis

Cat flea

34

RpS11

151

104

25

Homalodisca coagulata

Glassy-winged sharpshooter

32

RpS12

106

83

25

RpS16

137

73

25

Pediculus humanus

Human head/body louse

22

RpS9

130

49

25

RpL15

169

117

24

Diaprepes abbreviatus

Root weevil

21

RpS14

152

58

24

Tricholepisma aurea

Silverfish

18

RpS19

130

107

24

Ips pini

Pine engraver

16

RpL34

93

73

23

Anopheles funestus

African malaria mosquito

11

RpL37A

87

43

23


RpLp0

36

32

23

Crustacea

Daphnia magna

Water flea

44

RpS26

103

45

23

Litopenaeus vannamei

Pacific white shrimp

44

RpL10A

42

36

22

RpL23

139

51

22

Penaeus monodon

Black tiger shrimp

43

RpL36A

105

44

22

Litopenaeus setiferus

Northern white shrimp

36

RpL39

51

26

22

RpS17

112

70

22

Homarus americanus

Atlantic lobster

30

RpS27

80

42

22

Marsupenaeus japonicus

Kuruma shrimp

25

RpS30

89

72

22

Artemia franciscana

Brine shrimp

14

RpL36

87

64

21

Callinectes sapidus

Blue crab

13

RpL35

127

68

20

Eurydice pulchra **

Speckled sea louse

4


RpL35A

78

58

20

Chelicerata

Amblyomma americanum

Lone star tick

32

RpL37

80

43

20

Boophilus microplus

Southern cattle tick

29

RpL3

50

28

20

Rhipicephalus appendiculatus

Brown ear tick

21

RPL40****

128

22

20

RpS29

56

30

20

Ornithodoros porcinus

Tick

19

RpS15A

80

33

19

Sarcoptes scabiei

Scabies mite

13

RpL38

70

37

17

Amblyomma variegatum **

Tick

2

RpS21

86

49

17

RpS28

66

18

17

RpL27

137

84

14

RpLp2

83

59

12

RpS27A****

152

27

12

RpL22

69

23

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Left: The inferred ribosomal protein sequences (amino acids) that were included in the concatenated dataset. Only ribosomal proteins present in the Folsomia candida EST dataset were included in the analysis. Occurrence*: The number of species for which was data available for a certain ribosomal protein. # of variable sites: positions that constitute more than one amino acid in the different alignments. Numbers were calculated in MEGA4 [61].

Right: All species that were included in the analyses. Species marked with ** were excluded from the final analyses because they contained too few sequences. Occurrence***: The number of genes (out of 48) that were available for a specific taxon. ****: RpS27a and RpL40 are fused to ubiquitin [25].

Timmermans et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:83   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-83

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