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From: Evolutionary history of the alpha2,8-sialyltransferase (ST8Sia) gene family: Tandem duplications in early deuterostomes explain most of the diversity found in the vertebrate ST8Sia genes

Figure 6

Syntenic relationships of the ST8Sia III, ST8Sia III-r and ST8Sia V gene loci in fish and tetrapods (chromosomal locations of ST8Sia III, ST8Sia III-r and ST8Sia V in various vertebrate species). The physically-mapped genomes of human (Hsa), chicken (Gga), Oryzias latipes (Ola), Danio rerio (Dre) and Takifugu rubripes (Tru) were used to identify conserved gene neighbours of the ST8Sia III, ST8Sia III-r and ST8Sia V genes and to identify orthologs in fishes. Putative orthologies were determined with information available from the Ensembl server and by searching the various genomes using the ST8Sia protein sequences as TBLASTN queries. In each panel, each diagram represents the order of genes on the chromosome in the vicinity of the relevant ST8Sia gene. The names of the ST8Sia III neighbour genes are red and the ST8Sia III gene is a red box, whereas the names of the ST8Sia V neighbour genes are green and the ST8Sia V gene is a green box. The ST8Sia III-r gene is a pink box.

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

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