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Clemens Roessner1, Annette Becker1

1 Department of Botany, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, German

Zinc finger transcription factors are conserved in eukaryotes. The C1-1i ZnFclade is known to act as transcriptional repressors during different developmental processes. Here we elucidate the evolution of C1-1i ZnFs by phylogenetic, transcriptomic and sequence analysis. Further, we seek to optimize phylogenetic studies on weakly conserved gene-families covering huge evolutionary distances while minimizing the loss of information by using different bio-informatic approaches.