Figure 1.
Phylogenetic tree for the 175 jawed vertebrate species considered in this study.
Sequences were obtained from the NCBI Taxonomy Browser and edited with Figtree and hitmap for the presence of PAX genes. The dashed red line indicates the relationship suggested by Crawford et al [46].
Figure 2.
Synteny and neighborhood status for the PAX4 and PAX6 genes.
Figure 3.
Pairwise PAX protein changes observed in different vertebrate taxa compared to that of the sea squirt.
Table 1.
Branch-site clade model D values for ω (dN/dS ratio) estimated for 2 site classes.