The cnidarian-bilaterian ancestor possessed at least 56 homeoboxes: evidence from the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis

Joseph F Ryan¹^,2 , Patrick M Burton³ , Maureen E Mazza³ , Grace K Kwong³ , James C Mullikin² and John R Finnerty¹^,3

¹Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA

²National Human Genome Research Institute, Fishers Lane, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

³Department of Biology, Boston University, Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R64doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-7-r64


Published:	24 July 2006

Subject areas: Evolution, Bioinformatics

Additional files

Additional data file 1:

Accession numbers and phylogenetic affinities are provided for each sequence, including the degree of statistical support for each homeodomain's phylogenetic position on both the neighbor-joining and Bayesian trees.

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Additional data file 2:

Neighbor-joining phylogeny depicting the relationships among 455 distinct homeodomain sequences (130 from Nematostella, 97 from Drosophila, and 228 from human).

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Additional data file 3:

Bayesian phylogeny depicting the relationships among the same 455 homeodomain sequences.

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Additional data file 4:

Perl script that was used to parse BLAST reports and extract homeodomains from corresponding FASTA files.

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Additional data file 5:

Phylogenetic dataset used in this study in nexus format.

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