Defensins and the convergent evolution of platypus and reptile venom genes

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Figure 4.
Figure 4.

Overlain structural predictions of identified platypus beta-defensin and OvDLP peptides produced using LALIGN and MODELLER. The structures of DEFB1 (green), OvDLP-B (pink), and DEFB-VL (blue) peptides show notable similarities, supporting the idea that beta-defensins and OvDLPs are evolutionarily related.

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  1. Published in Advance May 7, 2008, doi: 10.1101/gr.7149808 Genome Res. 18: 986-994

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