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This segment is also conserved in the pufferfish genome (scaffold_551; scaffold_1408).
This is intriguing considering that both mosquito and fly species belong to the same taxonomic order (Diptera), and diverged approximately 250 million years ago, as compared to the 450 million years separating pufferfish and humans [ 45 ] . It has been noted that only half the genes in the Drosophila and Anopheles genomes can be interpreted as homologues [ 46 ] . We have identified a 250 amino acid protein (CG12104-PA) in the Drosophila database, which contains a partial HMG-box motif with weak similarity to the TOX family.
The nomenclature of the pufferfish TMC genes and proteins is derived from the phylogenetic relation of the corresponding sequences with the mammalian TMCs (Figure 4).
A region of high similarity was found in the pufferfish gene in a location expected for exon 1b.
The pufferfish gene is flanked on the 5' side by a kinesin gene that lies 30 kb upstream from the BDNF coding exon and on the 3' side by a Lin7 gene, less than 5 kb downstream from the coding exon.