Our data highlight the structural conservation and conserved expression patterns of chicken DNMTs.
Therefore, we employed bioinformatics, RT-PCR, real-time PCR, and in situ hybridization analyses to examine the structural conservation and conserved expression patterns of chicken DNMT family genes.
We found that dazl displays conserved expression throughout gametogenesis and concentrates in the Balbinani's body of early oocytes and the chromatoid body of sperm.
Thus, most mammalian duplicate genes have conserved expression profiles.
Of the few characterized mRNA-like ncRNAs, some also have conserved expression patterns [ 29, 32, 37].
The male-biased paralog of Actin-4, Actin-3, also has conserved expression in both species.
Comparison of these CCEs with other lepidopteran CCEs indicated that they had conserved expression and function in this insect order.
Although the expression pattern of MYBs varied between soybean and Arabidopsis, we also observed conserved expression profiles.
In addition, antisense transcripts are pervasive, exhibit conserved expression levels and localize at the 3′ end of genes.
In contrast,with τ-uniform random pairs, 29% of orthologous genes were identified to have conserved expression (Fig. 4).
