Identification of novel regulatory factor X (RFX) target genes by comparative genomics in Drosophila species

Table 4 Comparisons of Drosophila X-box candidate genes with the Drosophila cilia and basal body genes

	Total no. of genes	X-box gene candidates
		Total	Conserved X-box	Restricted consensus
In D. melanogaster	14,500	4,726
In D. pseudoobscura	10,000	3,848
No. of homologous genes in both species	9,815	1,462	412	83
No. of DCBB genes in *D. melanogaster*	815	*129 (15.8%)**	47	19
Stolc et al. [15]	88	28 (31.9%^†)	14	6
Ostrowski et al. [10]	126	28 (22.2%^†)	13	9
Pazour et al. [11]	192	41 (21.3%^†)	18	12
Avidor-Reiss et al. [13]	188	38 (20.3%^†)	14	8
Li et al. [14]	260	50 (19.2%^†)	25	12
Blacque et al. [37]	50	9 (18.0%^†)	6	5
Broadhead et al. [12]	69	15 (22.1%^†)	5	3
Efimenko et al. [36]	117	20 (16.7%^†)	8	6
Keller et al. [45]	51	9 (17.7%^†)	3	1
Andersen et al. [44]	56	8 (14.3%^†)	2	2
Percent X-box genes in the DCBB dataset		8.82%	11.41%	22.89%

* Percent of the 815 different DCBB genes. ^†Percent of total genes for each study present in the X-box list. See Additional data file 2 for the DCBB dataset.

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