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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 9.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2008;469:3–18. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-469-2_1

Table 1.2.

Conservation of the main components of the non-canonical Wnt pathways within eukaryotes1

Amoebozoa Cnidarians Protostomes Deuterostomes
PCP pathway Strabismus x x x x
Prickle o x x x
RhoA o x x x
ROCK o x x x
Rac x x x x
JNK o x x x
Ca2+ pathway PLC x x x x
PKC o x x x
CamKII o x x x
Calcineurin x x x x
1

x indicates the presence of a vertebrate gene homolog in the corresponding genomes, while o indicates the absence of such a homolog (amoebozoa, Dictyostelium discoideum; cnidarians, Nematostella vectensis; protostomes, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans; deuterostomes, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and Homo sapiens).