Figure 3

The phase and position of introns in ADAMTS genes support the phylogeny of ADAMTS proteins. Intron positions 16 – 87, found in the conserved region of the multiple alignment, are numbered consecutively from the 5'>3' locations in the ADAMTS-coding regions of genes. The presence of an intron is indicated according to its phase (0, 1, 2), absence of an intron indicated by "-" and missing data is blank. Unambiguously aligned intron positions are highlighted in bold, and conserved intron positions shared between chordates and Drosophila CG4096 or CG6107 or chordates and Caenorhabditis are indicated by $, # or * symbols respectively. The phases and positions of introns summarized here are also individually highlighted in the multiple sequence alignment [Additional File 2].