Table 4 Characteristics of the cDNA-based vs. repeat-based alignments

2^nd exon length (nt)

1721

1524

Number of elements

25

27

Average element Size (nt)

68

56

Range of element Sizes (nt)

12 – 357

11–192

Element Patterns (2^nd exon)

27

14

Element Patterns (intron + exons)

31

21

Type 1 repeats (red*)

4

4

Type 2 repeats (blue)

4

4

Type 3 repeats (green)

4

2

Type 4 repeats (yellow)

4

3

Type 5 repeats (purple)

3

2

Average set nt diversity

0.0194

0.0216

Overall nt diversity

0.3011

0.2779

Average element nt diversity

0.0846

0.0629