Research article
Accelerated exchange of exon segments in Viperid three-finger toxin genes (Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii; Desert Massasauga)
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* Corresponding author: R Manjunatha Kini dbskinim@nus.edu.sg
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1 Protein Science Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore
2 CMR Institute of Technology, 132 AECS Layout, IT Park Road, Bangalore 560 037, India
3 School of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639-0017, USA
4 Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298-0614, USA
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:196 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-196
Published: 8 July 2008Additional files
Additional File 1:
Identity between the exon segments of the three-finger toxins. The gene sequence of the three-finger gene was divided into various segments and percent identity between these segments is shown in the table. Percent identity above 50% is shaded with grey color.
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Comparison of gene structure of Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii three-finger toxin genes. The gene sequence of the three-finger gene was divided into various segments and similar/dissimilar color coding was given on the basis of sequence homology.
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