Relevant Information for the Species in This Study.

NOTE.– Chr., chromosome; LG., linkage group; Scaff., scaffold.*Species for which the SoxB inventory was estimated by sequencing in this study.†Numerals in normal font indicate that the gene number is based on comprehensive survey in whole genome sequences; numerals in italics indicate that the gene number is based on heuristic survey (by genomic PCR, RT-PCR, or survey in partial genome assembly); the numerals in parentheses indicate the numbers of genes having ambiguous identities because only incomplete HMG box sequences are available for these genes.‡One of the three SoxB1 genes is ambiguous and probably evolved from a SoxB2 duplicate by gene conversion (discussed in the subsection sf the Results and Discussion).