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. 2005 Oct 3;102(41):14700–14705. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506915102

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3.

evoprinter identifies a small peptide gene not annotated in the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP) database. EvoP analysis of the intragenic 12.9-kb region between the Drosophila Appl and vnd genes uncovered a small peptide gene conserved in D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. yakuba, D. ananassae, D. pseudoobscura, D. virilis, and D. mojavensis species. Shown is 1.5-kb of the D. melanogaster reference species (nucleotides -9,154 to -7,670 5′ to the vnd transcribed region). MCSs shared by all species are identified by uppercase, black nucleotides. evodif analysis of individual species revealed that one 5′ upstream MCS was not conserved in D. mojavensis but is present in all other species (lowercase red nucleotides). Underlined sequence in this MCS represents a consensus Hb DNA-binding motif. A protein EvoP of the encoded 40-aa peptide is also shown. Aligned with the codons, invariant amino acids residues are shown as uppercase black letters, and residues that are different in at least one of the six species tested above are shown as lowercase gray letters.