Parallelism involves independent recruitment of similar, conserved regulatory processes, while convergence involves independent evolution of analogous functions using different regulatory processes.
For users of limma, the edgeR package has a number of analogous functions.
The number of genes having similar expression (NGSE) exhibited also a negative correlation to essentiality (P = 1.7E-04) which may be due to co-expression of genes with analogous function.
The well conserved structure and properties suggests an analogous function of CpC8α to mammalian C8α, though it remains to be confirmed by further study.
In Mtb BfrB, structurally equivalent residues V106 and L129 may perform the analogous function of pore gate.
In plants, guiding of the ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling SWI/SNF complex by lncRNAs has been shown [ 39]; it is tempting to speculate that an analogous function of lncRNAs may be present in mammalians.
Indeed, the reductase domain of NOS is very similar to that of CYPOR and performs an analogous function, donating electrons to the haem-containing oxygenase domain [ 27].
In an era when the misguided and the malevolent still proffer the idea that his works were a put-up job by secret aristos such as the Earl of Oxford, seeing the records of his birth, marriage and death in the chancel of this beautiful church serves an analogous function to those "material evidence of crimes" at Auschwitz, giving the lie to revisionists and conspiracy theorists.
Since p-coumaric acid is found in the haptophytes E. huxleyi and D. lutheri, the diatom P. tricornutum and the green alga C. vulgaris [ 27, 28], and none of these lineages contains any homologs of PAL and C4H, there is little doubt in the existence of enzyme(s) with an analogous function(s).
Thus the hypothetical functions of the bis-SH3 and PX domains indicate the analogous function as a "membrane-binding/cytochrome docking region" of Nox organizer.
