Molecular Diversity of the Antimicrobial Domain of Beta-Defensin 3 and Homologous Peptides
Figure 1
Phylogenetic tree of orthologous groups. Maximum parsimony tree with bootstrap confidence levels based on protein sequences from the animal kingdom. Protein identifications correspond to (BD) type, species, and accession number as reported by the RefSeq database. Seven major clades are indentified: () rat-mouse BDEF38, () Eutheria–Metatheria BDEF3, () horse BDEF, () cow BDEF, () primate BDEF4, () rat-mouse BDEF4 and () rat-mouse BDEF2. These results indicate that has undergone niche specialization.
