Fig. 1

Telomeric deletion in Plasmodium vivax strains and isolates. a Pileup alignment of Illumina sequencing reads across the P. vivax genome. b A 150 kb deletion indicated by the decrease in sequence coverage (y-axis) at the telomeric end of chromosome 7. The bottom track shows the variation in GC content along this region. The lower coverage in North Korea indicates that only some of the parasites carry the deletion