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Nevertheless, some instances of especially well-preserved clusters of genes are known, even in divergent species.
It is therefore plausible that a "C-terminal core domain" existed first, which was subsequently duplicated several times giving rise to the four identified protein families, and which has been well conserved because it deserved a common enzymatic function, at the opposite of the N-terminal divergent regions.
From these data, they conclude that most North American bird species can be discriminated via molecular diagnosis of individuals and propose a “standard sequence threshold” of ten times the mean intraspecific variation (yielding a 2.7% threshold in birds) to flag genetically divergent taxa as “provisional species.”
), which are not sisters but members of divergent clades.
(It would be ideal to search for motifs with a divergent set of proteins in which the pairwise identities are less than about 40%, so that the motifs found are highly conserved because they are important for structure and/or function.