This sequence difference seems to correlate with their target specificity.
The particular diagnostic strength of fingerprints lies in their ability to distinguish sequence differences at the clan, superfamily, family and subfamily levels.
The net result is the homogenization and elimination of sequence differences during meiosis.
In addition, a polymorphism in the isogenic strain resulted in an eighth large-scale sequence difference between Releases 2 and 3.
Unfortunately, the Hox homeodomain is a short (60 amino acid) region with many sequence differences between these taxa.
"There are sequence differences at the genetic level that get translated down to the protein levels," Rioux says.
Gene duplications account for most of the sequence differences between humans and chimps.
It is safe to say, however, that the 2.7% COI sequence difference initially used was far too high.
The average sequence difference between the three O. emmonsae studied was 0.8%.
This distinction was made based on in silico analysis of numerous sequence differences, clone-sequence assembly and clone-marker/gene content relationships.