It is, again, important to underscore that this initial analysis should be considered preliminary and subject to change as experimental evidence sheds light on actual protein function. Alignment and clustering of protein sequences were used as a basis for assigning homology. Sequences were aligned, and dendrograms based on neighbour-joining distances were created using a ClustalW webserver at (http://align.genome.jp). Percentage amino acid (AA) identities were determined using the Needle webserver at (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/emboss/align/) [16].
