Figure 4

Comparison of intron I structure. The gene sequences were obtained from GenBank and are represented by the gene name (and accession number): Etxc (X51410), ntx1 (AF096999), cbtx (Y12492), cbtx4 (Y12493), LsIII (AB098531), NLNTP (AB098532), L1Long (AB098533), κ-btx (Y11768), κ-btx3 (Y11769) and α-btxV31 (Y17693). Source species are as in Fig. 3. 3FTx 1–5 are gene structures of S. catenatus edwardsii three-finger toxins from the present study. The nucleotide sequences were aligned using the online software DIALIGN Multiple Sequence Alignments tool at BiBiServ and then were divided into segments. The nucleotide segments are represented with boxes, and gaps are indicated with a dash. The additional segments in 3FTx 1, 4, 5, 2 and 3 are named IIIa and Va-Vd.