Genetic variation in SPAG16 regions encoding the WD40 repeats is not associated with reduced sperm motility and axonemal defects in a population of infertile males

Table 1 SPAG16 amino acid sequence conservation analysis

	Homo sapiens	Mus musculus	Bos taurus	(Pred) Gallus gallus	(Pred) Pan troglo-dytes	Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	Micro-monas
Homo sapiens	100	74	85.1	49.2	99	35.7	33.6
Mus musculus	85.1	100	74.6	46.7	74	34.8	34.6
Bos taurus	92.2	86	100	49.4	85.4	34.9	34.1
(Predicted) Pan troglodytes	99.5	85.1	92.4	64.5	100	35.7	33.6
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	52	51.7	52.9	48.5	52.3	100	52.3
Micromonas	53.8	52.6	54.4	51.5	54	67.6	100
Identity Scores (%)

Quantitative assessment of identity scores (starting from left column) and similarity scores (starting from top row), as calculated by MacVector alignment using default settings.

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