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Figure 3

From: Analysis of CACTA transposases reveals intron loss as major factor influencing their exon/intron structure in monocotyledonous and eudicotyledonous hosts

Figure 3

Model for the loss and gain of introns in CACTA transposases. Simplified phylogenetic tree based on the consensus exon numbers per clade as described in the text. Below the tree the putative ancestor transposase with four exons is depicted. Exons are depicted as gray rectangles with introns as colored lines. Blue, red and green depict introns conserved in Regions I to III, G indicates cluster G with the putative intron gain. Conserved introns share the same color band. Intron loss is depicted by its corresponding color and circled −, intron gain by an encircled +. Gray balloons indicate how the observed configuration arose from the putative ancestor.

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