BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Phylogenomic analyses of KCNA gene clusters in vertebrates: why do gene clusters stay intact?

Simone Hoegg and Axel Meyer*

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Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:139 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-139

Published: 15 August 2007

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Additional file 1:

Maximum likelihood tree of KCNA3/6. The dataset included 42 species of which ten were outgroup sequences (KCNA4) and had a total length of 378 amino acid positions. The model applied was JTT + I + G (pinv = 0.35, a = 0.61). Values in the front are bootstrap percentages as obtained from 500 bootstrap replicates. Posterior probabilities as obtained by MrBayes 3.1.1 [59](100 000 generations) are indicated with asterisks. (** = 100% PP, * = 99–95% PP)

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Maximum Likelihood tree of KCNA1/2. The dataset included 49 species of which ten were outgroup sequences (KCNA4) and had a total length of 449 amino acid positions. The model applied was JTT + I + G (pinv = 0.37, a = 0.61). Values in the front are bootstrap percentages as obtained from 500 bootstrap replicates. Posterior probabilities as obtained by MrBayes 3.1.1 [59](100 000 generations) are indicated with asterisks. (** = 100% PP, * = 99–95% PP)

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Maximum likelihood tree of KCNA5/10. The dataset included 39 species of which ten were outgroup sequences (KCNA4) and had a total length of 360 amino acid positions. The model applied was JTT + I + G (pinv = 0.42, a = 0.81). Values in the front are bootstrap percentages as obtained from 500 bootstrap replicates. Posterior probabilities as obtained by MrBayes 3.1.1 [59](100 000 generations) are indicated with asterisks. (** = 100% PP, * = 99–95% PP)

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Accession numbers of nucleotide sequences, including those newly determined for this study that were analyzed in this study.

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Additional file 5:

List of all footprint cliques (FCs) with more than two sequences as obtained by Tracker. For each clique, the relative position in regards to genes is given as well as the nucleotide position within the sequences.

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