Schematic representation of ALS7 alleles from 67 C. albicans strains investigated. The arrangement of allele 11a502 is based on the published sequence (Hoyer and Hecht 2000). The arrangement of all other alleles was deduced from the PCR assays described in Results. Alleles are arranged according to size, using the same symbols as in Figure 1. Names of alleles are in the center of each allele. In naming the allele, the first two digits indicate the number of tandem repeats, followed by an `a', followed by a single digit indicating the number of stretches of VA/TSES repeats present. In cases of alleles that have the same number of VA/TSES stretches but where the number of the repeats per stretch differs between the alleles, two additional digits are used. The following table gives the number of VA/TSES repeats in each stretch or all alleles shown.
