The role of transposable element clusters in genome evolution and loss of synteny in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Table 3 Number and similarity of putative orthologs between predicted proteins from chromosome 7 and proteins from the N. crassa and F. graminearum

	Number of genes	N. crassa		F. graminearum
		Number of proteins with orthologs	D*	Number of proteins with orthologs	D*
Within TE islands	463 (40.2%)	57 (12.3%)	0.963	49 (10.6%)	0.928
Outside of TE islands	688 (59.8%)	211 (30.7)	0.735	223 (32.4%)	0.774
Total	1,151	268		272

*Average distance of all orthologous protein pairs between the indicated species and chromosome 7; distance (D) was computed using Kimura's method. The values were significantly different (P < 0.05) based on a two-tailed Student's t test.

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