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From: Evolution of the multifaceted eukaryotic akiringene family

Figure 1

akirin genes were retrieved from an exhaustive computational screen of eukaryotic genome and transcriptome databases. Representative sequences are mapped onto a cladogram demonstrating their phylogenetic relationships and branches are annotated with taxonomic information about separate clades. The branching of non-metazoan taxa is adapted from [5]. The branching of metazoan taxa is as previously demonstrated [7, 8, 10]. The split of akirin into two vertebrate clades was inferred from phylogenetic results of this study. More detailed information, including further taxa where sequences were retrieved can be found in additional file 1. * Note that akirin genes have been characterised under four other aliases: subolesin [36, 37](tick akirin), bhringi [32] (another name for fly akirin), mighty [3] (mouse akirin1) and FBI1 [2] (rat akirin2).

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