Research article
Tracking the evolution of alternatively spliced exons within the Dscam family
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* Corresponding author: Morgan C Giddings giddings@unc.edu
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1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
3 Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
4 Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
5 Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 70125, USA
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:16 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-16
Published: 16 February 2006Additional files
Additional File 1:
Alignment of Dscam exon 4 homologs. Alignment of sequences found using variants of Dscam exon 4 from Drosophila as queries. ClustalW format, viewable as plain text.
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Additional File 2:
Alignment of Dscam exon homologs. Alignment of sequences found using variants of Dscam exon 6 from Drosophila as queries. ClustalW format, viewable as plain text.
Format: TXT Size: 9KB Download file
Additional File 3:
Alignment of Dscam exon 9 homologs. Alignment of sequences found using variants of Dscam exon 9 from Drosophila as queries. ClustalW format, viewable as plain text.
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Additional File 4:
Alignment of Dscam exon 17 homologs. Alignment of sequences found using variants of Dscam exon 17 from Drosophila as queries. ClustalW format, viewable as plain text.
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Additional File 5:
Locations of sequences similar to Dscam exons. Locations of the sequences referenced in additional files 1, 2, 3, 4 and in the text. Locations are given on chromosomal assemblies from Ensembl version 20 or from contigs referenced in the methods. The file is in Microsoft Excel format. Stop coordinates less than start coordinates indicate that elements are in the (-) strand.
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Additional File 6:
A Smith-Waterman alignment of fly Dscam versus Human Dscam, with the sequences corresponding to exons highlighted by color (color legend in the file), and putative corresponding domain locations underlined.
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Additional File 7:
A Smith-Waterman alignment of fly Dscam versus Human Dscam-L, with the sequences corresponding to exons highlighted by color (color legend in the file), and putative corresponding domain locations underlined.
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