This page was produced as an assignment for Genetics 677, an undergraduate course at UW-Madison.
Gene Phylogeny
Figure 1. ClustalW2
Analysis
The phylogenetics tree above was generated using the online alignment tool ClustalW2. The gene sequences were too long to create a phylogenetic tree using other tools. An interesting observation from this phylogenetic tree is that the human MSH2 gene seems to be quite distant and dissimilar from all of the homologs analyzed, with the exception of the Saccharomyaces cerevisiae homolog.