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Clustering of CNCSs has also been recently reported in the worm genome [ 47], and future research will determine if CNCS clustering is a general feature of non-coding conservation in metazoan genomes.
Extensive BLAST and PSI-BLAST searches of the public databases failed to recover any sequences with significant similarity to the Runt domain from non-metazoan organisms with completed or nearly completed genomes, suggesting that Runx genes may be a metazoan invention.
In the case of β-thymosin, a sequence signature also has been argued to support a grouping of Drosophila and Caenorhabditis [ 12 ] . However, it is a gene family known to have paralogs within animals, the position of introns differs between sequences from the two species, and only four other metazoan taxa were surveyed.
To our knowledge, our algorithm Argos is the first successful attempt to do this for a metazoan genome.
These data strongly suggest that metazoan proteins with Q/N-rich domains are potentially capable of forming prions.
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