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From: Evidence of a tick RNAi pathway by comparative genomics and reverse genetics screen of targets with known loss-of-function phenotypes in Drosophila

Figure 3

Domain structure and phylogenetic tree of tick Argonaute-2 proteins. (a) The structure of the predicted Argonaute-2 proteins from I. scapularis and R. microplus in comparison to the structure of Argonaute-2 in D. melanogaster. The predicted structural property of both tick Argonaute-2 candidates is similar to the structure of the fruit fly Argonaute-2 protein. No R. microplus ORF with a Piwi domain similar to Argonaute-2 Piwi was identified. (b) Phylogenetic analysis of Argonaute-2 proteins (Bos = B. taurus, Cat = R. microplus, Cele = C. elegans, Dmel = D. melanogaster, Iscap = I. scapularis, Tcas = T. castaneum).

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