Figure 4: Evolutionary relationships of the classical and novel desiccation-responsive TRX and PIMT proteins. | Nature Communications

Figure 4: Evolutionary relationships of the classical and novel desiccation-responsive TRX and PIMT proteins.

From: Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge

Figure 4

(a) Phylogenetic tree of TRX proteins showing the clusters of classical insect TRX-1 (green), TRX-2 (grey), TRX-3 (blue) and the cluster of desiccation-responsive TRX, specific to P. vanderplanki (pink). (b) Phylogenetic tree of PIMT proteins showing the cluster of the classical PIMT-1 conserved among Diptera (green) and the cluster of desiccation-responsive PIMT proteins, which are specific to P. vanderplanki (pink). The evolutionary history was inferred using the neighbor-joining method and the evolutionary distances were computed using the maximum likelihood estimation (units: amino-acid substitutions per site). Pv, P. vanderplanki; Pn, P. nubifer; Aa, Aedes aegypti; Ag, Anopheles gambiae; Am, Apis mellifera; Cq, Culex quinquefasciatus; At, Arabidopsis thaliana; Dm, Drosophila melanogaster; Hs, Homo sapiens; Mm, Mus musculus; Nv, Nasonia vitripennis; XI, Xenopus laevis.

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