Journal: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Article Title: SMA20/PMIS2 Is a Rapidly Evolving Sperm Membrane Alloantigen with Possible Species-Divergent Function in Fertilization
doi: 10.3390/ijms25073652
Figure Lengend Snippet: SMA20 is the pig ortholog of PMIS2. Shown are pairwise dot-plot comparisons of the SMA20 cDNA sequence (vertical dimension in all panels) to the warthog coding sequence (cds) and, as indicated, warthog, pig, mouse, human, and armadillo genomic sequences between Atp4a and Haus5 in their respective species (horizontal dimensions).
Article Snippet: We also queried the NCBI Gene database (10 November 2024) to retrieve the pig and other species’ syntenic regions spanning Atp4a – Haus5 and conducted pairwise dotplot comparisons (MegAlign program of the Lasergene 15 software suite; DNAStar, Madison, WI, USA) to identify SMA20/PMIS2 loci and to align deduced amino acid sequences of predicted ORFs.
Techniques: Sequencing, Genomic Sequencing