Fig. 1

Distribution of the An. gambiae salivary proteins orthologues in anophelines. The selected An. gambiae proteins (left) were used to search orthologues in the genomes of the different anopheline species (top). Retrieval of full-length (✓), partial (○) or frameshift containing (±) coding sequences is reported. Red denotes genes not found but available from previous transcriptomes [19, 21]. Gene absence/loss and gene gain/duplication are highlighted in grey and yellow, respectively. Genes that were not found or not assessable (i.e. for which there was no clear evidence of gene loss) are indicated with a minus (−). Diamonds (♦) were used to indicate the shorter D7r typical of Nyssorhynchus species