Musculus, Xenopus Tropicalis

This tree shows the similarities found between all of the species that were listed on the ortholog search. This helps in narrowing down what the exact function of the gene is. It was determined that the species, Danio rerio, Xenopus tropicalis, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Homo sapiens all shared similar functions for this gene. Thus the assumption was made that L. cuprina had to have a similar if not exactly the same as the closest species to it. Reading the tree, that species would have to be Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Homo sapiens.
Discussion
The main discovery of all of this research is that the function of the msl-1 gene is acetylation of histone K4K16. This is one of the most probable functions of the gene. There is other possible functions that this gene can have but due to
That can be shown by the differences in the multiple sequence arrangement as shown above. As the same arrangement shows there would be a difference in the function of the male and female. That should not affect the main function, however, that should not be the case. Looking at the annotated gene above, it can be determined that they are similar, but also different. The L. cuprina and L. sericata have a different number of introns and exons. They also all contain a different number of total base pairs. That along with the non-existent UTR in the female gene. As discussed the gene functions in the acetylation of histone K4K16. That is the only function that can be determined. That is based off of the phenylogenic tree and the data found on NCBI and all of the other databases sited below. The gene was found to function in Chromatin binding in Xenopus tropicalis. Where as in Mus musculus the function is Chromatin binding, chromatin modification, histone-H4-K16 acetylation. This is very similar to the function in Rattus norvegicus which is histone H4-K16 acetylation. Complex neurobehavioral disorder