Accelerated exchange of exon segments in Viperid three-finger toxin genes (Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii; Desert Massasauga)

Robin Doley^*¹ , Susanta Pahari^*¹^,2 , Stephen P Mackessy³ and R Manjunatha Kini¹^,4

¹Protein Science Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore

²CMR Institute of Technology, 132 AECS Layout, IT Park Road, Bangalore 560 037, India

³School of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639-0017, USA

⁴Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298-0614, USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:196doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-196


Published:	8 July 2008

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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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