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Specifically, the r 2value indicates that less than 1% of the variation in substitution rates between orthologous proteins is explained by the variation in the number of protein-protein interactions.
The ortholog in these species, as well as the presence of an unassembled orthologous gene in humans, Caenorhabditis and Giardia, has been noted by Mocz and Gibbons [ 6 ] , who discussed its evolutionary relationship to the heavy chain of dynein motor protein.
Members of a gene family that share a common ancestor as a result of a duplication event are denoted as being paralogous, distinguishing them from orthologous genes in different genomes, which share a common ancestor as a result of a speciation event.
The orthologous rat mRNA has not been cloned yet, which is reflected by the more than 2.5 million mouse EST sequences present in dbEST, compared to only 351,827 ESTs for the rat.
This presents new opportunities to detect synteny groups and facilitates the comparison of splicing patterns and orthologous sequences between these two organisms.