Embryonic expression patterns and phylogenetic analysis of panarthropod sox genes: insight into nervous system development, segmentation and gonadogenesis

Table 1 Summary of commonly used synonyms for arthropod Sox genes, and gene names as used in this paper (after McKimmie et al. [5])

Species	Drosophila ^b	Apis	Tribolium	Glomeris	Euperipatoides	Drosophila synonyms
	SoxNeuro (SoxN)	SoxB1	SoxNeuro	SoxNeuro	SoxNeuro	SoxB1, CG18024, Sox29F
	Dichaete^a (D)		Dichaete ^c	Dichaete	Dichaete-like	SoxB2–1, Fish-Hook, CG5893
	Sox21b ^a	Sox21b	Sox21b	Sox21b		SoxB2–2, CG6419
	Sox21a	SoxB2	Sox21a	Sox21a-like		SoxB2–3, CG7345
	SoxC	SoxC	SoxC	SoxC	SoxC	Sox14, CG3090, Sox60B
	SoxD	SoxD	SoxD	SoxD	SoxD	Sox102F, CG11153
	SoxE	SoxE1, SoxE2	SoxE	SoxE1, SoxE2	SoxE	Sox100B, CG12098
	SoxF	SoxF	SoxF	SoxF	SxoF	Sox15, Sox50E, CG8404
Orphans			SoxB5 ^d		SoxB3 ^d

^aNote that Dichaete and Sox21b genes have very similar expression patterns and that these genes do not resolve in phylogenetic analysis; they are therefore indistinguishable
^bfollowing McKimmie et al. [11]
^cas named by Oberhofer et al. [14]
^das these genes cluster with Sox B class genes, but do not resolve; no expression pattern was obtained that could have used to orthologize these genes

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