aLeaves facilitates on - demand exploration of
metazoan gene family trees on MAFFT sequence alignment server with enhanced interactivity.
In particular, 83 of the 153 longest Amphimedon scaffolds (those that contain genes from more than ten distinct
metazoan gene families, sufficient for synteny to be assessed) show segments of conserved synteny with other animals (Supplementary Note 6).
Not exact matches
Origin and diversification of the basic helix - loop - helix
gene family in
metazoans: insights from comparative genomics.
(B) Phylogenetic treatment of homologs from major
metazoan branches of human DAZ
gene family members (BOULE, DAZL and DAZ) using conserved RRM domains.
Nearly three - quarters of the 1,286 animal - specific
gene families arose by
gene duplication on the
metazoan stem (Supplementary Note 9).
Out of 4,670 pan-
metazoan gene families defined by clustering sponge and eumetazoan peptides, 1,286 (27 %) seem to be
metazoan - specific (see Supplementary Note 9.2).