Fig. 5.

Alignment of vertebrate MEI1 homologs. The non-mouse sequences are translated from ESTs present in sequence databases. Only that subregion for which sequence was available from all or three of the species is compared. Residues in red are identical among all three or four sequences. Areas where two or more amino acids are identical or are similar are boxed. The consensus sequence is indicated; where two of the sequences contain one amino acid and the other two contain another amino acid, the consensus sequence contains a “2.” The numbering is with respect to mouse MEI1. The zebrafish sequence is derived from two testis EST clones (faa59b01.x1/y1 and fu76e02.x1/y1) and the chicken sequence from a single EST from liver (pgl1n.pk007.e22). The chicken sequence was altered to compensate for a possible sequencing error that disrupted the reading frame. Not shown are the cow (derived from several Bos taurus testis ESTs, assembled by TIGR as TC144584) and pig (GenBank accession no. BG609787) sequences.