Modern organic pigments have the same conservation issues as other synthetic paint materials: they have been often chosen by artists on the basis of their colour hue and brightness, without sound knowledge of their durability and stability.
This does not mean that plantations have the same conservation value as natural forests, but, at least for orangutans, they have some value that in the past has not been sufficiently recognized.
DOPS is 0 if all positions in an alignment have the same conservation score and 100 when no two positions have the same conservation score.
However, sequences generated by shuffling each position of the native alignment have the same conservation properties as the native alignment, and the "SHUFFLE" method detects a total of 74 new homologs.
For a sufficiently high n (number of sequences), the chance of a vector of length n having the same pattern of conservation as another site would then be very small, and no false positives would result.
The studied MacCR1B and BmCR1B elements are considerably more conserved than the mitochondrial proteins and have the same level of conservation as EF-1α protein, one of the most conserved proteins in eukaryotes.
Cytosolic Hsp90 has the same drop in conservation and a much shorter strap.
Compared with constitutive exons, conditional exons with the same conservation scores tend to have more conserved upstream intronic regions.
The domain structure prediction is confirmed by three zebrafish cDNAs (CAE17649, CAE17650, CAE17651), which have the same domain organization, although conservation between zebrafish and Fugu sequences is only moderate (~30%).
"Stone carving has the same audience as art and architecture, the same conservation concerns for brownstone, marble and brass," she said.
