Figure 1

Tubulin tandem gene arrays in trypanosomatid genome sequences. a) An alternating tandem array of α- and β-tubulin repeats on chromosome 1 in T. brucei, showing length (in base-pairs) of coding and intergenic sequences. b) Four tubulin loci in L. major comprising a singleton β-tubulin locus on chromosome 8, a monotypic tandem array of α-tubulin (chromosome 33), a singleton β-tubulin locus on chromosome 21 and a β-tubulin tandem gene array (chromosome 13). Locus names refer to identifier tags in GeneDB annotations.