Alignment of LH receptor amino acid sequences obtained from the UniProt database ( http://www.uniprot.org ). Homo sapiens LHCGR (UniProt identifier: P22888), Mus musculus Lhr (P30730) and Rattus norvegicus Lhr (P16235) sequences were aligned by the UniProt online tool Clustal Omega 1.2.1 ( http://www.uniprot.org/align ). Boxes indicate sequence divergence; :=conservation of strong groups;. = conservation of weak groups or no consensus. (DOC 92 kb