Table 4.

Species and references of the sequences used for the mature peptide alignment

Species	Abbreviation	Reference
Schmidtea mediterranea	Schme	Nuss et al., 2010
Moniezia expansa	Monex	Maule et al., 1991
Drosophila melanogaster	Drome	Brown et al., 1999
Aedes aegypti	Aedae	Stanek et al., 2002
Bombyx mori	Bommo	Deng et al., 2014
Daphnia pulex	Dappu	Elphick and Mirabeau, 2014
Aplysia californica	Aplca	Rajpara et al., 1992
Lottia gigantea	Lotgi	Elphick and Mirabeau, 2014
Caenorhabditis elegans	Caeel	Husson et al., 2014
Pristionchus pacificus	Pripa	a
Capitella telata	Capte	Nuss et al., 2010
Capitella capitata	Capca	a
Saccoglossus kowalevskii	Sacko	Mirabeau and Joly, 2013
Branchiostoma floridae	Brafl	Mirabeau and Joly, 2013
Danio rerio	Danre	Söderberg et al., 2000
Gallus gallus	Galga	Blomqvist et al., 1992
Mus musculus	Musmu	a
Homo sapiens	Homsa	Minth et al., 1986

^aMature peptides predicted according to preprotein convertases cleavage sites.