Table 1

Summary information about conservation of mouse cassette exons

rodent duplications

rapidly evolving orthologous genes

moderately evolving orthologous genes

slowly evolving orthologous genes

all orthologs

Conserved exons

72 (67.3%)

877 (76.3%)

1591 (78.1%)

1813 (80.9%)

4281 (78.9%)

Rodent-specific exons

18 (16.8%)

77 (6.7%)

114 (5.6%)

100 (4.5%)

291 (5.4%)

Estimated real rodent-specific exons

10 (9.3%)

44 (3.8%)

61 (3.0%)

48 (2.1%)

153 (2.8%)

Mouse-specific exons

17 (15.9%)

196 (17.0%)

331 (16.3%)

327 (14.6%)

854 (15.7%)

All cassette exons

107

1150

2036

2240

5426

Genes

269

2693

3939

3447

10079

Cassette exons per gene

0.40

0.43

0.52

0.65

0.54

Nurtdinov et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009 9:142   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-142