Fig. 4.

Evolutionary relationships of the Skn7 proteins in 12 fungal taxa. Evolutionary history was inferred by the neighbor-joining method (69). The bootstrap consensus tree inferred from 1,000 replicates (18) is taken to represent the evolutionary history of the taxa analyzed. The percentage of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test is shown next to each branch. Evolutionary distances were computed by the JTT matrix-based method and are shown in the units corresponding to the number of amino acid substitutions per site. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated from the data set. There were a total of 318 positions in the final data set. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted in MEGA4 (76).