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The overall compositions of K +-channel genes in Anopheles and Drosophila are strikingly similar in some respects, such as conservation of sequence and intron-exon boundaries of orthologs, and strikingly different in others, such as the number of Irk homologs and lack of microsynteny.
Though this will doubtless irk many readers (as will the lack of citations to some influential prior proponents such as Douglas and Martin [1991]), some (though not necessarily this) strong form of abstraction and omission is necessary to get to clear functional ideas.
2 ; however, from the tree (Figure 3b) it appears that the divergence of Irk2.
3 from Irk2.
Our analysis, based on maximum-likelihood and neighbor-joining algorithms, suggests that gene duplication in Anopheles is the most likely explanation for the greater number of Irk3 genes in mosquito.