Figure 7.

Phylogenetic tree of the FBG domains of the FREP family in A. gambiae. Phylogenetic relationships of the FBG domains are shown. The seed alignment used for constructing the tree was the multiple alignment sequences shown in Fig. 1. Maximum-likelihood approach was used to construct the tree with the proml program of the PHYLIP package, which uses the Jones-Taylor-Thornton model of change between amino acids and a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) method of inferring different rates of evolution at different amino acid positions. The FBG domains of each FREP are denoted by their gene name in GenBank.