Therefore, this phylogenetic tree is consistent with what we expected. To see an example of amino acid conservation and substitution, see Figure 6. Yeast, homo sapiens, chicken , c.elegans, mouse Figure 6. Amino acid alignments This figure shows the amino acid alignments of the five organisms of comparison. The black boxes indicate identical amino acid residues, while the white boxes indicate a substitution of amino acids.
Dashes indicate shifts in amino acid sequences for the purposes of alignment.
These amino acid alignments, from amino acids 251 to 400, represent a sample of the alignments used to generate the phylogenetic tree in Figure 5.