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Table 2. The size of the six introns in the luciferase gene from Nyctophila caucasica reported in this paper, compared to those in other lampyrid species.
Species Intron size (bp)
1 2 3 4 5 6
Nyctophila caucasica 89 48 52 45 54 47
Hotaria species 1 52 52 52 51 49 52
Lampyris noctiluca 2 87 48 49 45 54 52
Luciola lateralis 3 77 54 49 50 46 52
Photinus pyralis 4 57 51 48 49 43 47
Pyrocoelia rufa I 5 74 51 48 45 54 52
Pyrocoelia rufa II 5 84 53 54 46 54 48

1Intron size and position conserved in three Hotaria species, H. unmunsana, H. papariensisand H. tsushimana, Choi et al. 2003
2Li et al., (2003b).
3Cho et al., 1999.
4de Wet et al., 1987.
5Li et al. (2003a) characterised the luciferase gene from two different populations of P. rufa, a Korean specimen (P. rufa I) and a Chinese population (P. rufa II)
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