Evolutionary analyses and comparative genomics were performed with 16 species: D. melanogaster, A. gambiae, D. pulex, L. salmonis, S.maritima, S. mimosarum, M. martensii, I. scapularis, H. dujardini, C. elegans, B. malayi, T. spiralis, M. musculus, H. sapiens, and B. floridae. For orthologous group analyses, gene families were identified using OrthoFinder (Emms and Kelly, 2015 (link)). The canonical proteome was used as a query in BlastP against proteomes from 16 species to generate a distance matrix for OrthoFinder to normalize and then cluster with MCL. Detailed methods are described in Source code 5. For the comparative BLAST analysis, five additional transcriptome datasets were used from the following crustacean species: Litopenaeus vannamei, Echinogammarus veneris, Eucyclops serrulatus, Calanus finmarchicus, Speleonectes tulumensis.
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