Figure 1. Dendrogram depicting the sequence similarity among the glucose transporter proteins from Fusarium oxysporum and the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

The F. oxysporum strain 11C Hxt protein sequence was deduced from the nucleotide sequence and the yeast and F. oxysporum strain 4287 glucose transporter amino acid sequences were obtained from Saccharomyces Genome Database (www.yeastgenome.org) and Fusarium comparative genomics database (FCGD) (http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/genome/fusarium_graminearum) respectively. Protein sequences were aligned using European Bioinformatics Institutes’s ClustalW2 tool (www.ebi.ac.uk) [62] and the dendrogram was generated using the Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean (UPGMA) method [63].