Fig. 4

Clustering of homologous P. chabaudi erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PcEMA1) from Plasmodium y. nigeriensis N67, P. y. yoelii 17X and P. y. yoelii YM parasites. The gene family is expanded only in the N67 parasite. The predicted protein sequences were aligned using ClustalW algorithm in msa R package, and the dendrogram was inferred and visualized using the ape, seqinr, and ggtree packages in R. Proteins are colored based on their parasite origins