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From: The discovered chimeric protein plays the cohesive role to maintain scallop byssal root structural integrity

Figure 4

Characterization and evolutionary analysis of EC genes. (a) Genomic distribution of Sbp9 and related EC genes. Genes with homologous annotations are displayed. (b) Gene structures and across-foot expression profiles of all EC genes in the C. farreri genome. The horizontal axis of the histogram represents the relative expression levels of three foot subregions. (c) Possible evolutionary origin of the scallop EC gene. Protein sequences of related domains were aligned using the Megalign program32. Different colors indicate the degree of matching between each aligned sequence: blue, 21–40%; red, 81–100%.

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