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From: Evolutionary history of the alpha2,8-sialyltransferase (ST8Sia) gene family: Tandem duplications in early deuterostomes explain most of the diversity found in the vertebrate ST8Sia genes

Figure 8

Conserved synteny between a Branchiostoma floridae genomic region of scaffold 66 hosting the ST8Sia II/IV ST8Sia III/III-r and ST8Sia EX genes and human paralogons. Synteny between the human ST8Sia gene loci and related genes on scaffold 66 of the marine invertebrate B. floridae (Bfl) were assessed by chromosomal walking and reciprocal TBLASTN searches of genes adjacent to ST8Sia loci in human (Hsa) and amphioxus (Bfl) genome databases. The names of the ST8Sia III neighbour genes are red and the ST8Sia III gene is represented by a red box. The names of the ST8Sia V neighbour genes are green and the ST8Sia V gene is indicated by a green box. The names of the ST8Sia II neighbour genes are blue and the ST8Sia II is shown as a blue box. The names of the ST8Sia IV neighbour genes are violet and the ST8Sia IV gene is denoted by a violet box. The ST8Sia III/III-r genes are white/red boxes and the ST8Sia II/IV gene is depicted by a violet/blue box.

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

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