Fig. 3. Drosophila Vls resembles Homo sapiens methylosome protein 50 (MEP50). The alignment of the two predicted protein sequences was made using ALIGN Query (GENESTREAM SEARCH network server IGH Montpellier, France). Identical residues are highlighted in black and conserved residues in gray. The WD domains of MEP50 (Friesen et al., 2002) are boxed and numbered in blue, the predicted WD domains of Vls (PROSITE) in green.