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Genomic characterization of the European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax reveals the presence of a novel uncoupling protein (UCP) gene family member in the teleost fish lineage

Mbaye Tine1*, Heiner Kuhl1, Martin Jastroch2 and Richard Reinhardt3

1 Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestresse 63-73, 14195, Berlin, Germany

2 Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH) Ingolstädter, Landstr. 1, Munich, Germany

3 Genome Centre Cologne at MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829, Cologne, Germany

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12:62 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-62

Published: 11 May 2012

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Additional file 1 :

Embl files of sea bass genomic UCP loci including flanking gene annotations. These files contain the sequences of four UCP genes characterized in sea bass and their flanking genes.

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Pairwise comparisons of nonsynonymous and synonymous substitution rates of all teleost UCP genes. Substitution rates were estimated using the yn00 program in PAML.

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QI(k) or QII(k) values for all combinations of pairwise comparisons of UCP clusters in teleost fishes. QI (k) or QII (k) values highlighted in blue indicate sites that might be responsible for functional divergence.

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Multiple alignment of UCP protein sequences from six teleost species (A) and major vertebrate lineages including teleosts (B). The amino acid alignments were conducted using MAFFT version 6 and the poor aligned regions were removed with Gblocks. The alignments were illustrated with GeneDoc. The most conserved amino acids are highlighted in black. Tetraodon: Te; Sea bass: Sb; Zebrafish: Ze; Stickleback: St; Medaka: Me; Takifugu; Fu; Xtrop: Xenopus tropicalis; A.liz: Anolis lizard; Hum: Huam; Mou: Mouse; Ele: Elephant; Lamp: Lamprey; Chick: Chicken.

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