Figure 1From: The evolution of drug-activated nuclear receptors: one ancestral gene diverged into two xenosensor genes in mammalsPhylogeny of xenobiotic-sensing nuclear receptors from different species. A, A non-rooted phylogenetic tree depicts the relationship between mammalian CARs and PXRs and non-mammalian intermediate receptors. The scale bar represents 0.1 amino acid substitutions per site. B, The sites of intron-exon junctions in the coding regions of CXR, PXR and CAR are highly conserved as depicted in an alignment of the amino acid sequences of these receptors.Back to article page