Figure 1

ACT comparison of whole Chromosomes 4 and 8 in T. brucei and Chromosome 31 in L. major. Chromosomes are presented as in GeneDB, with both forward and reverse strands and loci represented as coloured rectangles; grey arrows indicate the direction of transcription along polycistronic regions. Red rectangles denote the boundaries of the duplicated region on each chromosome; significant tBLASTx matches between homologous genes are linked by red coloured lines. Note that, while indicative, not all sequence affinity between chromosomes was detected in this tBLASTx search.