Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree analysis of amino acid sequences of ZFP179 with the other stress-responsive C2H2-type zinc finger proteins. (A) Multiple sequence alignment of amino acid sequences of ZFP179 with the other stress-responsive C2H2-type zinc finger proteins. Black boxes indicate the positions at which the residues are identical and grey boxes highlight the residues that are similar. AZF3 is included to show the positions in the domains of NLS, L-box, zinc finger, and DLN-box. (B) The phylogenetic tree of plant stress-responsive C2H2-type zinc finger proteins. The Neighbor–Joining tree was constructed with MEGA (version 4.1). Branch numbers represent a percentage of the bootstrap values in 1000 sampling replicates and the scale bar indicates branch lengths. The references for the amino acids sequence are Arabidopsis STZ/ZAT10, AZFs, ZAT12 (Lippuner et al., 1996; Sakamoto et al., 2000, 2004); soybean SCOF-1 (Kim et al., 2001), petunia ZPTs (van der Krol et al., 1999; Sugano et al., 2003), rice ZFP245 (Huang et al., 2005a), ZFP150 (Huang et al., 2005b), ZFP182 (Huang et al., 2007), and ZFP252 (Xu et al., 2008).