Figure 8. Sequence conservation among orthologs of plastid small RNAs.

To determine if the identified sRNAs are evolutionarily conserved, Deschampsia antarctica sRNAs were compared with the plastid sRNAs identified in Arabidopsis, rice, or barley [28], [29]. The sequence aligments of sRNAs which have >90% sequence homology are shown. The multiple sequence alignments were performed with ClustalW2 algorithm (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalw2/) and visualized with Jalview program [41]. The consensus sequences between ortholog sRNAs were shown at the bottom of each alignment.