Fig. 2

Amino acid sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis of VQ motifs from nematode and fungus species. Motif sequences of 14 VQs from nematode (blue fonts in left column) and 34 VQs from fungi (black fonts in left column) were submitted to sequence alignment (right column) by Clustal X2 (see Methods). The aligned sequenced were used for phylogenetic tree construction by using the Maximum Likelihood method. Bootstrap values (> 50) were shown next to the branches. Conserved residues “VQ” in all species were highlighted by red fonts. The star “*”, free-living nematodes; “**”, Animal parasitic nematodes; “***”, Plant parasitic nematodes