Phylogenetic tree of 49
VH genes from various vertebrate species.
This tree was constructed by using p-distances for the
amino acid sequences of framework regions 1, 2, and 3. Most sequence
data are from Ota and Nei (14), and additional sequences for cattle,
sheep, pigs, and rabbits are from GenBank. The root of the tree was
determined by using light chain genes as was done in ref. 14.