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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.
2 in the mosquito occurred earlier than the divergence of Drosophila Irk2 and the two Anopheles genes Irk2.
3 from Irk2.
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.
This also appears to be the case for Irk2.