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. 2019 Mar 11;9:4094. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-40751-y

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Predominance of purifying selection with evidence for localised release following gene duplication during the evolution of plant MAPKs. (A,B) Ka/Ks values were calculated for all pairwise combinations of the 48 algal MAPKs (Supplementary. Tables S1, S2). For visualisation, the average values of all pairwise combinations within each phylogenetic group combinations are presented for full-length sequences (A) and kinase domains. (B) Ka/Ks values below 1.0 indicate purifying selection. (C,D) Sliding window analysis of sequence divergence between two group D MAPKs in C. reinhardtii and V. carteri, representing a lineage-specific gene duplication event. For sliding window analysis, the full-length nucleotide sequences of the indicated orthologous MAPKs were used at 51-bp window size and 9-bp step size settings. The Ka/Ks plots are indicated by red lines.