Figure 1.
Nucleotide sequence alignments of the 10 repeat families identified in Rickettsia conorii. The coloring scheme is equivalent to the bracket representation of RNA secondary structure; the bases predicted to make base pairing are represented by the same color (instead of opening and closing brackets). The consensus sequences were derived from the aligned positions in which a single base is observed in at least 70% of the sequences (lowercases for 70%–90%; upper cases for ≥90% conservation).ClustalX alignment quality scores are shown at the bottom of the alignment.
