Figure 3. Phylogenetic tree of the Dicer-associated double-stranded RNA-binding proteins Loquacious, R2D2 and Pasha Species included in the tree: Anopheles gambiae (Diptera); Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera); Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera); Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera); Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera), Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera); Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera); Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera); Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera); Ixodes scapularis (Acari/Ixodidae); Pediculus humanus (Phthiraptera); Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera).

The phylogenetic tree was constructed using the Neighbor-Joining method with MEGA, version 6, software. The numbers associated with the branches refer to bootstrap values (confidence limits) resulting from 1000 replicate resamplings.