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The C-terminus strong conservation leads to the assumption that all the related genes derive by duplication events from a common ancestor, but the identity of this ancestral gene and the date of expansion can only be hypothesized.
Since Slurvian thus exists in both a Germanic language (English) and a Romance language (French), must it not therefore follow that Slurvian has its origin in the common ancestor of both tongues, that is in the Indo-stage?
Each evolved genotype and the ancestor of the opposite Ara marker were each diluted 1/200 into a common flask containing 9.9 ml of the test media, and then incubated 1 day.
Alternatively, a GshA gene could have been present in the last common ancestor, but have been lost in nearly all Archaea, the deepest-branching eukaryotes and many bacteria.
The hypothetical ancestor sequence has three conserved arginines.