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Emergence, development and diversification of the TGF-β signalling pathway within the animal kingdom

Lukasz Huminiecki1 email, Leon Goldovsky2 email, Shiri Freilich2 email, Aristidis Moustakas1 email, Christos Ouzounis2 email and Carl-Henrik Heldin1 email

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Computational Genomics, Institute of Agrobiotechnology, Thessaloniki, Greece

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:28doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-28

Published: 3 February 2009

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Figure S1. Smad phylogenomic tree (rooted on time). View in magnification (at least 200%), in a pdf viewer such as Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat or kpdf.

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Figure S2. Receptor phylogenomic tree (rooted on time). View in magnification (at least 200%), in a pdf viewer such as Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat or kpdf.

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Figure S3. Bayesian phylogenetic tree demonstrates that the familiar pattern of four Smads grouped into three functional classes can be also observed in Lophotrochozoans. The tree is rooted using Dad. Accessions given are JGI gene model numbers.

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Figure S4. Two R-Smads (AqSmad1 and AqSmad2) have been detected in Amphimedon genomic traces. The tree is rooted using Dad.

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Sequences. All sequences and alignments are provided in the supplementary archive.

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