Gene order and summary statistics including sequence divergence, intron length, intergenic length, and overall cluster size were then compared with known Hox clusters from various chordates including horn shark, coelacanth, and bichir to evaluate evolutionary trends.
Branch length indicates divergence distance.
The N-terminus of the computationally predicted cat and opossum proteins exhibit greater divergence in length and sequence similarity, respectively.
In other words, GC content is dependent of the ordinal position of introns, but not divergence and length.
The divergence in length between the two mtDNA haplotypes was caused by a variation in plasmid-related dpo insertions.
In the next section, additional simulations investigate the amount of information, as measured by the sequence divergence, alignment length, and number of taxa, needed to detect divergence points.
Although more significant correlations were observed (e.g., between divergence and length of exons or introns), only these four patterns were consistent among species.
Due to the huge sequence divergence and length differences of the carboxy-terminal regions in TfpH/PtbH proteins, only their amino-terminal part with the DUF3751 domain can be meaningfully aligned.
We use genome-wide estimates of gene expression (>50,000 expressed genes) to study the relationship between gene expression, codon bias, rates of sequence divergence, protein length, and gene duplication.
The value 0.70 was experimentally determined by simultaneously attempting to maximize the number of sequences assigned to clusters and minimizing the heterogeneity, both in terms of sequence divergence and length differences, of the resulting clusters.
