Open Access Research article

Structural diversity and evolution of the N-terminal isoform-specific region of ecdysone receptor-A and -B1 isoforms in insects

Takayuki Watanabe*, Hideaki Takeuchi and Takeo Kubo*

Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

For all author emails, please log on.

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:40 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-40

Published: 12 February 2010

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Table S1. Taxa used in the structural comparison of the EcR-A isoform-specific region. These files can be viewed with: CLUSTAL X.

Format: PDF Size: 285KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional file 2:

Table S2. Taxa used in the structural comparison of the EcR-B1 isoform-specific region. These files can be viewed with: CLUSTAL X.

Format: PDF Size: 351KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional file 3:

Table S3. Degenerate/consensus primers used for cDNA cloning. These files can be viewed with: CLUSTAL X.

Format: PDF Size: 144KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional file 4:

Table S4. Gene-specific primers used for cDNA cloning and the collection sites of animals. These files can be viewed with: CLUSTAL X.

Format: PDF Size: 350KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional file 5:

Sequence alignments of the isoform-specific regions of the EcR-A and -B1 isoforms. Aligned sequences of the five types of the A isoform-specific regions and seven types of the B1 isoform-specific regions. These files can be viewed with: CLUSTAL X.

Format: ZIP Size: 16KB Download file

Open Data