Identification of new members of the MAPK gene family in plants shows diverse conserved domains and novel activation loop variants

Table 8 Gene duplication analysis of some selective plant MAPKs that contain novel activation loop motif

Gene name	Representative motif	Z-score	Level of confidence (%)
AtMPK1	T-E-Y	19.46	100
AtMPK20	T-D-Y	11.88	100
OsMPK16-2	M-E-Y	6.85	100
PaMPK7-2	T-E-M	7.92	100
OlMPK7	T-S-Y	8.48	100
GrMPK4-6	T-E-C	13.94	100
GmMPK	T-V-Y	13.67	100
BrMPK	T-Q-Y	7.91	100
PaMPK10	T-Q-M	13.41	100
CsubMPK3	T-R-M	7.75	100

Analysis was carried out by Pinda (pipeline for intraspecies duplication analysis). Analysis shows all the MAPKs that contain novel activation loop motif resulted in z-score above four. The Z-score above four is considered highly significant to be duplicated.

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