Figure 6. Schematic depiction of Nme genes evolution in Opisthokonts.

The gene repertoire is shown at the root of the tree for the opisthokont ancestor. For all lineages, duplication events are shown and cis-duplications (CD) indicated. For the vertebrate lineage, 1R and 3R whole genome duplications events are shown and duplication events of group I Nme genes redrawn from [4]. Nme 9 and Nme10 that have been shown to be vertebrate innovations [4] are not displayed here for clarity reasons. The gene repertoire is given for all studied species. For clarity reasons, the complete name of the gene is not given and only the gene number is given and the color kept consistent with the corresponding gene in the opisthokont ancestor.