Fig. 1

Amino acid sequences alignment of NlSPARC. The amino acid position is indicated on the right. Identical residues between orthologous sequences are shown as white characters against black background, and conservative substitutions are shaded. In green is indicated the signal peptides. In yellow is indicated the conserved glycosylation site. In red are highlighted the cysteine residues. In blue is indicated the acid residues. The N.lugens SPARC sequence is highlighted with bold letters. All protein sequences obtained from GenBank are listed in Table S1