Fig. 5.

Phylogenetic (NJ) tree of invertebrate defensins. The NJ tree was constructed based on amino acid sequences. Bootstrap values based on 1,000 pseudoreplicates are indicated at the left of the respective nodes. Only values >400 are shown. Spider defensins are highlighted in grey. Only complete sequences were used in the alignment, M. menardi partial sequence was excluded. The accession numbers of the ‘ancestral’ class are the same as in Fig. 4. The accession numbers of the ‘insect’ class are: S. calcitrans: O16137; A. mellifera: C55392; P. terraenovae: S12558; A. gambiae: Q17027; A. aegypti: P81603; D. melanogaster: P36192; G. morsitans: AAL34112