The software we used in this study

Fasta2 (pairwise local alignment program)

MUSCLE (protein multiple sequence alignment software)

NJplot (tree drawing)

NorMD (scoring function for multiple sequence alignments)

PDB (3D biological macromolecular structure data)

PHYML (maximum likelihood-based phylogeny inference)

ProFit (GNU program for protein least-squares fitting)

PyMOL (GNU software for molecular visualization)