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Also collected in the set for comparison were the previously-described Runx genes from D. melanogaster ( runt and lozenge [ 7 ] ), Caenorhabditis elegans ( run [ 8 ] ), sea urchin ( SpRunt [ 9 10 ] ), T. rubripes ( TrRunx2 [ 11 ] ), and mouse ( Runx1 , Runx2 , and Runx3 ; the three human RUNX genes, which have been extensively characterized previously, are highly similar to their mouse orthologues [ 12 13 ] and hence were not included in the collected set).
Sequence database searches and other studies [ 17 ] have revealed only two RNase III orthologues (Dicer and RNase III) in the mouse and human genomes.
, xol-1 . The xol-1 orthologues of the closely related nematodes
It is clear from these data that the usage of alternative promoters evolved prior to the gene duplication events in the vertebrate lineage, since all three genes in both mouse and Takifugu utilize alternative promoters that give rise to similar alternative N-termini within the respective orthologues.
Figure 3provides an alignment of the RNase III domains of the mouse, human, Drosophila and C. elegans RNase III orthologues.