Gene model for the ortholog of Gar1 in Drosophila willistoni

The <i>Drosophila willistoni</i> feature with NCBI Gene ID 6651170 was established to be orthologous to <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> gene <i>Gar1</i> . The <i>Gar1</i> protein contains the conserved domain H/ACA_rnp_Gar1/Naf1 (InterPro accession IPR007504) and the N-terminus and C-terminus of the protein are glycine-rich. There are major changes in the gene structure of the ortholog, Gar1-PA, between <i>D. melanogaster</i> and <i>D. willistoni</i> , which have three and four coding exons respectively. Notably, none of the intron positions are conserved between the two species.