Evolution of glyoxylate cycle enzymes in Metazoa: evidence of multiple horizontal transfer events and pseudogene formation

Table 1 Protein divergence (p-distance) of isocitrate lyase from selected genomes.

	Euglena gracilis	Arabidopsis thaliana	Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Caenorhabditis elegans	Dictyostelium discoideum	Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	Escherichia coli	Brucella melitensis
Arabidopsis. thaliana	0.743
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	0.758	0.479
Caenorhabditis elegans	0.714	0.606	0.612
Dictyostelium discoideum	0.708	0.600	0.608	0.369
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	0.716	0.601	0.614	0.380	0.357
Escherichi coli	0.703	0.580	0.606	0.403	0.383	0.360
Brucella melitensis	0.710	0.607	0.613	0.275	0.344	0.348	0.363
Sulfolobus solfataricus	0.717	0.566	0.598	0.397	0.394	0.370	0.379	0.369

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