Fig. 2

Alignment of R. rickettsii strain Sheila Smith sRNA candidate #71. The sRNA candidate #71, predicted only in R. rickettsii strain Sheila Smith but not in strain Iowa and the upstream 150 bp region of predicted sRNA were aligned with the corresponding genomic region from strain Iowa. The predicted −10 box (orange), −35 box (blue), and sRNA sequence (green) are highlighted. A 20bp deletion observed in the genomic sequence of strain Iowa is shown by the dotted line