Evolution of four gene families with patchy phylogenetic distributions: influx of genes into protist genomes

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Evolution of four gene families with patchy phylogenetic distributions: influx of genes into protist genomes

Jan O Andersson¹ , Robert P Hirt² , Peter G Foster³ and Andrew J Roger⁴

¹Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Box 596, S-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden

²School of Biology, The Devonshire Building, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

³Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK

⁴The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1X5, Canada

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:27doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-27


Published:	21 March 2006

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Additional File 1:

Lists accession numbers, keys to short names used in alignment files, taxonomic descriptions, and the basis for exclusion from the phylogenetic analyses for all datasets used in the study.

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Information about the datasets and parameters of the phylogenetic analyses.

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Figures showing the split support for the two runs in the grouped aa analyses plotted one against the other as indicators of convergence.

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Figure showing the structural organization of the T. vaginalis A-type flavoproteins together with additional discussion.

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Figure showing a phylogenetic analysis of the short version of glucosamine-6-phosphate isomerase with the long version and some prokaryotic long branches excluded.

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Alignment file in nexus format for the hybrid-cluster protein.

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Alignment file in nexus format for the A-type flavoprotein.

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Alignment file in nexus format for the glucosamine-6-phosphate isomerase.

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Alignment file in nexus format for the alcohol dehydrogenase E.

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