Figure 3
From: The transcriptome of the invasive eel swimbladder nematode parasite Anguillicola crassus
Enrichment of Signal-positives for categories of evolutionary conservations. Categories of evolutionary conservation recorded using the taxonomy of BLAST-matches at two different bitscore thresholds (50 or 80) are compared for the occurence of signal peptide cleavage sites and signal anchor signatures, predicted using SignalP V4.0 [38]. Contigs were categorised as conserved, novel in the kingdom Metazoa, the phylum Nematoda or Spirurina sensu[17]. TUGs without any match at a given threshold were categorised as novel in A. crassus (Ac). The highest proportions of genes predicted to have secretory signal peptides are observed in TUGs predicted to be part of gene families that arose in the last common ancestor of Nematoda or to be novel to A. crassus.