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Figure 5

From: The evolutionary conservation of the A Disintegrin-like and Metalloproteinase domain with Thrombospondin-1 motif metzincins across vertebrate species and their expression in teleost zebrafish

Figure 5

Most parsimonious evolutionary history of the ADAMTS family. This schematic representation proposes the expansion of the ADAMTS gene family starting from one sequence at the base of the Metazoa. Shown in purple is the duplication of the ancestral forms of adamts2/3/14 and adamts13, and the retroposition of the ancestral form of the genes adamts 9/20 into adamts1/4/5/8/15, which added from 6 to 8 the number of adamts genes from bilaterian to deuterostomian species. The 1R, 2R and 3R are shown by green stars with 2, 4 and 8 branches, respectively. The evolutionary history of the group of genes with teleostean duplicates is detailed. Shown in orange is the tandem duplication of the 1/5/15/8 gene while gene losses are shown in red.

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