Zygote arrest 1 gene in pig, cattle and human: evidence of different transcript variants in male and female germ cells

Table 3 Exon-intron structure of ZAR1 genes in pig and cattle comparing with human.

	*Sus scrofa*			*Bos taurus*			*Homo sapiens*
exon/intron	coordinates relative to coding sequence	exon length (nt)	intron length (nt)	coordinates relative to coding sequence	exon length (nt)	intron length (nt)	coordinates relative to coding sequence	exon length (nt)	intron length (nt)
1	1–852	>852	1466	1–850	>850	1467	1–963	>963	1512
2	853–945	92	82	851–943	92	83	964–1057	92	80
3	946–1020	74	1292	944–1018	74	1099	1058–1132	74	1089
4	1021- 1164	>143		1019- 1155	>136		1133–1275	>142

* Hamming/edit distance of repeats, computed by REPuter software, was ≤ 1. **Calculated e-value of repeats – number of repeats of the same length or longer and with the same number of errors or fewer that one could expect to find in a random DNA of the same length.

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