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Figure 3

From: Evolution of the multifaceted eukaryotic akiringene family

Figure 3

ML tree depicting the phylogenetic relationships of vertebrate Akirin1 and Akirin2 proteins and the single Akirin protein of four invertebrate deuterostomes. The corresponding amino acid sequence alignment is provided in additional file 2. The tree is rooted at the base of the invertebrate deuterostome clade. A corresponding Bayesian analysis was performed on the same dataset. Branch confidence values are shown as ML bootstrap values/Bayesian posterior probabilities. Both methods produced near identical topologies and a strongly supported branching of separate clades for Akirin1 (red branches) and Akirin2 (blue branches) is observed. Branch lengths leading to the Akirin1 and Akirin2 clades are shown underlined in italics and were derived from the ML analysis. The suggested nomenclature of the Akirin family, along with other known aliases (in brackets) is shown to the right of the tree. The scale bar shows the number of substitutions per site.

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