Fig. 2

a: Identification and distribution of TSS in R. conorii during infection of host and tick cells, in vitro. a: Schematic showing the genomic location and classification of TSS. TSS were categorized as promoter (P), intergenic (I), orphan (O), antisense intergenic (Ai), and antisense downstream intergenic (Ad) based on their genomic location and distance from the translation start and stop positions of the respective gene. b and c: Distribution of different categories of TSS identified by TSSAR in R. conorii during the infection of tick AAE2 b and host HMECs c, in vitro. A total of 3903 and 2555 TSS were identified in R. conorii during infection of tick vector and human host cells, respectively. Majority of TSS (> 75%) were categorized as either intergenic or antisense intergenic depending on their genomic position