Methods and Materials

Following the evolution of the protein

The protein sequence was blasted in the NCBI website. The blasted sequence was scanned using a non-redundand database to obtain the most significant sequences. 57 sequences with significant E-values were recovered. 55 of these sequences were used to perform a multiple alignment sequence by using the program ClustalX. When this was completed, a distance matrix calculation was performed on the sequences. The program Phylip was used. The calculations from the matrix distance calculation were transformed by using the subprogram in Phylip, Neighbor. Afterwards, the bootstrap values