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The human ribonuclease III gene was mapped to chromosome 5p13-p14 (Figure 5B), a region that is syntenic to mouse chromosome 15B.
A concentration of rearrangements in the Buchnera lineage is also suggested by the much longer average length of spacers that occur between syntenic fragments as compared to spacers that have the same flanking genes in the ancestor and in E. coli (see above).
If the groups of genes we identify here are found to be more syntenic in the D. melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura genomes than expected, that would support the idea that the observed coordinated expression is advantageous.
Thus, the ABCG5 and ABCG8 genes fit into a group of genes that are syntenic both in HSA2 and in RNO6.
All other rRNA operons were lost in entirety as part of regions occurring between syntenic fragments.