Figure 2From: The evolution of WRKY transcription factors The WRKY gene family. A. Neighbor joining phylogenetic tree derived from a MUSCLE alignment of WRKY domains from the complete WRKY gene families from the following species: Arabidopsis thaliana, Glycine max, Brachypodium distachyon, Selaginella moellendorffii, Physcomitrella patens, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Chlorella variabilis, Coccomyxa subellipsoidea, Micromonas pusilla, Ostreococcus lucimarinus, Ostreococcus tauri, Volvox carteri, Klebsormidium flaccidum, Bathycoccus prasinos, Dictyostelium discoideum, Polysphondylium pallidum, Dictyostelium fasciculatum, Fonticula alba, Acanthamoeba castellanii, Giardia lamblia, Giardia intestinalis, Dictyostelium purpureum, Auxenochlorella protothecoides, Spironucleus salmonicida, Mucor circinelloides, Rhizopus delemar, Absidia idahoensis, Lichtheimia corymbifera, Rhizophagus irregularis, and Mortierella verticillata. Fungal genes are marked with a red dot, unicellular green algae green, diplomonads blue, amoebozoa black, social amoebae purple, and Klebsormidium flaccidum orange. The higher plant WRKY groups are marked I-III. I NTD and I CTD denote the N-terminal and C-terminal domains from Group I proteins. The tree was produced using MEGA 6. B. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree using the same MUSCLE alignment.Back to article page