Fig. 4

Sequence alignments of different MITE lineages (a-e) with longer autonomous partner or with highlighted homology region to transposase sequence. For each alignment, sequences are in black, showing gaps and deletion in invisible. The global structure of the copies is shown on top, with arrowheads corresponding to TIRs. Region of homology to transposases sequences, as determined by BLASTX against NCBI nr protein database, or to the consensus sequence are shown in red. Similar copies in length and sequences defined sublineages (numbered in green), while a vertical blue line indicated a putative breakpoint that allow to divides the alignment into non-overlapping regions