Figure 1.

Identification of seven IL-17 ligands in European sea bass. (A) The predicted amino acid sequences of European sea bass IL-17 were aligned by ClustalW. The dashes denote gaps introduced to maximize alignments. Identical and similar residues are indicated by asterisks and colons, respectively. The position of the IL-17 domain is indicated. (B) The neighbour-joining tree of the European sea bass IL-17 deduced proteins with fish and mammalian orthologues. The genetic distances were calculated based on protein differences (p-distance) with complete deletion of gaps. The number at each node indicates the percentage of bootstrapping after 1000 replications. Accession numbers are indicated.