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Table 4 Highly conserved motifs in worms and/or flies [6] detected in P. tetraurelia 3' UTRs.

From: Evolutionary dynamics of a conserved sequence motif in the ribosomal genes of the ciliate Paramecium

Motif

Observed hits

Expected hits

Distance (bp) from translation termination codon

UAAAUAAAU

165

121 (0.97)

26.46 (37.08)

UAUAUAUA

689

246 (3.56)

23.52 (25.23)

UGCAUUU

146

64 (1.76)

35.46 (44.36)

UGUGUAU

106

53 (0.99)

26.98 (32.07)

UUUUUAUA

175

284 (2.14)

28.77 (40.40)

UGUACAUU

47

11 (1)

21.83 (20.20)

GUACAAU

109

33 (2.46)

21.55 (20.10)

UCAAUAAA

107

68 (1.27)

29.94 (28.01)

UACUAAC

12

35 (0.81)

32.33 (19.81)

UUGCAUA

130

61 (2.59)

28.75 (41.93)

  1. The list includes the top 10 k-mers for which the frequency of occurrence in P. tetraurelia 3' UTRs most deviate from the corresponding frequency expected by chance. Values in parentheses are standard deviations.