Figure 4

Figure 4

Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of goldfish noc-aa. Sequences are accessible through GenBank. Splice Variant I is composed of exon 1a in blue (coding sequence with cyan background), exon 2 (green background) and exon 3 (yellow background) (allele 1 accession no. OR651354). Splice Variant II is composed of non-coding exon 1b, exon 2, and exon 3 (accession no. OR651356). Red arrow indicates the insertion point of exon 1a or exon 1b on exon 2. Bold font indicates stop codons upstream of the initial methionine codon. Coding region extends from the first methionine residue (blue box for variant I, green box for variant II) to the stop codon (* and red box). Backgrounds colored cyan, green, and yellow indicate the coding part of exon 1a, 2, and 3, respectively. Red letters indicate differences in nucleotides and amino acids between the two allelic sequences (allele 2, accession no. OR651355 and OR651357).