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. 2013 Jul 10;111(5):410–421. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2013.63

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Evolutionary relationships among 5S rRNA. Left: orthologous 5S rRNAs consensus sequences of the 253 5S rRNA blocks (see Table 1). We can distinguish four 5S rRNA groups: vertebrates, basal deuterostomes and nematodes share high sequence similarity, whereas the sequences of other metazoans clustered into a distinct 5S rRNA group. Exceptions are marked with species names and ID of the block. Right: paralogous 5S rRNA genes in mammals. At least one 5S rRNA block consensus sequence of each mammalian genome analyzed is part of the here defined ‘basic 5S rRNA set'. The ‘core 5S rRNA set' comprises the sequences from the ‘basic set' except the one of Tarsius syrichta. These basic consensus sequences are highly conserved in sequence. Other 5S rRNA genes are highly divergent. The figure is drawn with the NeighborNet method of the SplitsTree package. All raw data and figures, including taxa names, are downloadable from the Supplemental Page.