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Figure 4

From: Gallin; an antimicrobial peptide member of a new avian defensin family, the ovodefensins, has been subject to recent gene duplication

Figure 4

The gallin promoter. A) CLUSTALW 2.0.11 multiple sequence alignment of the promoter region of the 3 forms of gallin. Black background and white letters indicates complete conservation between form 2 and 3 which extends ~60 bp upstream, and where appropriate conservation with form 1 is similarly indicated. Light shading indicates putative TATAA boxes, the transcription start site is indicated with a triangle and the first exon is underlined. B) The evolutionary history was inferred using the Neighbor-Joining method [41]. The phylogenetic tree was linearized assuming equal evolutionary rates in all branches [42]. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths in the same units as those of the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. The evolutionary distances were computed using the Maximum Composite Likelihood method [43] and are in the units of the number of base substitutions per site. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated from the dataset (Complete deletion option). There were a total of 489 positions in the final dataset.

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