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The amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) genome contains a highly diversified set of G protein-coupled receptors

Karl JV Nordström email, Robert Fredriksson* email and Helgi B Schiöth* email

Department of Neuroscience, Functional Pharmacology, Uppsala University, BMC, Box 593, 751 24, Uppsala, Sweden

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:9doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-9

Published: 16 January 2008

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Neighbor-joining trees. Phylogenetic trees of the amphioxus GPCRs.

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Additional file 2:

Multiple alignments of the Somatomedin B and the Kringle domains. Two multiple alignments of the Somatomedin B and the Kringle domains found in an expansion of the amphioxus Adhesion family.

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BLAST search against the nr database. Results from the BLAST search of the amphioxus GPCRs against NCBIs nr database. The top five hits, excluding hits from the Branchiostoma-phylum, are presented.

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Additional file 4:

Amphioxus neuropeptide, gut peptide and food intake receptors orthologs. Compilation of the orthologs to known vertebrate neuropeptide, gut peptide and food intake receptors.

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