Figure 2
From: Sequence-structure-function relations of the mosquito leucine-rich repeat immune proteins
Orthologous genomic clusters of mosquito Short LRIM genes. Anopheles gambiae (red) chromosome (Chr), and orthologous Culex quinquefasciatus (purple) and Aedes aegypti (yellow) supercontigs (Scont) are depicted with LRIM genes (green), a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GNEF) containing gene (blue), and repeat regions (light shading). Comparative sequence analyses reveal duplications (dashed lines) of LRIM8 in An. gambiae and of LRIM10 in Ae. aegypti, while LRIM7 and LRIM9 remain as single-copy orthologues. Some shuffling of LRIM gene orders and orientations has occurred, and the accumulation of repetitive elements has left the Ae. aegypti region ~4-fold larger.