Figure 3

Intraexonic splicing of Amelotin exon 8 in mammals. The nucleotidic region of the AMTN exon 8 of five mammals and five sauropsids were aligned. Note the intraexonic splice donor site (arrow) that appeared in an ancestral mammal. A favorable environment for splicing (highlighted in grey) was created when the sequence was changed into Ggtg (then conserved in monotreme and marsupial lineages as shown here) and then into Ggta in an ancestral placental. Coding sequence in bold and upper case letters; new intron in lower case letters.