Analysis of the VSG gene silent archive in Trypanosoma brucei reveals that mosaic gene expression is prominent in antigenic variation and is favored by archive substructure

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.

Diversity of VSG N-terminal domain. Neighbor-joining tree based on ClustalX-generated multiple sequence alignment of predicted peptide sequences of 725 sequences. The three domain types are colored individually (by HyperTree) as shown in the key. g represents each group depicted in Fig. 2A.

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  1. Genome Res. 17: 1344-1352

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