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The representative families were selected from the COG database according to the following criteria: i) at least 30 species are represented; ii) no more than two paralogs in any of the species; iii) no more than 1.2 paralogs per genome on average; iv) at least 100 positions in the alignment containing less than 30% of gaps.
This position of the E. coli and B. halodurans fusion components is unexpected and is in contrast to the placement of the orthologs from other gamma-proteobacteria and Gram-positive bacteria, as well as non-fused paralogs from the same species (AtoA/D and BH2258/2259, respectively) within the bacterial cluster.
Lists of paralogs for archaea
However, it was argued that, as natural selection does not 'know' which duplicated gene should be under selection and which is free of selective constraint, both paralogs experience a period of relaxed selection and accelerated evolution.
Recently duplicated paralogs appear to be a nonrandom group enriched in genes coding for proteins involved in different aspects of the organisms' interaction with the environment (see Additional data files).