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 3.
Figure 3.

Tree of amino acid alignment of putative VSG-related proteins. The tree compares predicted products of 35 full-length, functional VSGs with those of 29 VR genes. The VR set falls into two clusters, denoted by 1 and 2.

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  1. Published in Advance July 25, 2007, doi: 10.1101/gr.6421207 Genome Res. 17: 1344-1352

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