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For such families, query sequences from the same species group are expected to have low orthology values.
Only two of the 560 protein-coding genes that show clear orthology between E. coli and Buchnera would have been removed (due to absence from both Vibrio cholerae and Yersinia pestis ). The two genes ( dnaC and dnaT ) are linked in both Buchnera and E. coli and were retained in the ancestor.
Output: A list (as in Figure 7) of proteins orthologous to Q , sorted according to a bootstrap confidence value (based on orthology, super-orthology, or subtree-neighborings).
One difficulty with interpreting such qualitative evidence, including Hox gene orthology, is that almost any pattern can be found in nature if one looks.
In many cases a discrepancy between orthology bootstrap values and sequence similarity is caused by orthologs in only phylogenetically distant (relatively to the query sequence) species.