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@article{171789,
        author = {Atif Baig Mirza and Abhijit Hire and Sanjay Shelke and Suvarna Pawar},
        title = {Phylogenetic Analysis of Cytochrome b protein from different Chameleon species},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {8},
        pages = {1532-1547},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=171789},
        abstract = {The major aim of this project is phylogenetic analysis of Cytochrome b protein from Chameleon species.  The phylogenetic tree construction of different chameleon species and to find out the common structural and functional regions among them. We have taken 17 sequences of cytochrome b protein in different chameleon species. The cytochrome b is a common protein in all these 17 species. Cytochrome b is a Component of the ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase complex (complex III or cytochrome b-C1 complex), which is a respiratory chain that generates an electrochemical potential coupled to ATP synthesis. The chameleon is a very distinctive and well-known species of lizard due to the large eyes and curled tail. Some species of chameleon, although not all, are able to change the colour of their skin in order to be camouflaged into their surroundings. Clustal Omega is a new multiple sequence alignment program that used seeded guide trees and HMM profile-profile techniques to generate alignments between 17 sequences.  Mega6.0 is an advanced version of the Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software, which had shown the facilities for building sequence alignments, inferring phylogenetic histories, and conducting molecular evolutionary analysis. Mega6.0 is used to construct the phylogenetic tree. MEME discovered novel, ungapped motifs in the sequences. Prosite described protein domains, families and functional sites as well as associated patterns and profiles to identify them. This analysis will be helpful in drug discovery of particular disease or disorder causes by cytochrome b mutation.},
        keywords = {Phylogenetic tree, Cytochrome b, Chameleon.},
        month = {January},
        }