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However, the Drosophila genome is significantly smaller than that of the mosquito, at least in part due to loss of some introns [ 46 ] . Thus, it is possible that the CG12104-PA protein originated from an ancestral TOX family member, but has significantly diverged in Drosophila.
For some, the climb is an act of piety: the mountain is revered as the abode of Japan’s ancestral gods.
Bees could impose several costs on the ancestral bird flowers; for example, the number of hummingbird visits may depend on the amount of nectar available in the flowers.
It appears likely that the PRC-H-like version of the PRC-barrels was first derived in the ancestral α-proteobacteria, followed by dissemination into other lineages.
All these genes have orthologs in the mouse, suggesting that multiple duplications of an ancestral EGF-like gene predated the mouse-human divergence.