Figure 7. Kermani sheep CIB4 interaction with other predicted proteins and description of predicted functional partners using the STRING program. Different line colors represent the types of evidence for the association. Line thickness relates to combined score. Small nodes are protein of unknown 3D structure. Large nodes are some 3D structures known or predicted. Colored nodes are query proteins and first shell of interactors. White nodes are second shell of interactors. Edges are protein-protein associations. Associations are meant to be specific and meaningful, i.e., proteins jointly contribute to a shared function. This does not necessarily mean they are physically binding to each other. Known interactions are from curated databases or are experimentally determined. Predicted interactions are gene neighborhood, gene fusions and gene co-occurrence. Others are text mining, co-expression, and protein homology.