Figure 5.

Structure of the genomic region containing five clustered genes for Tribolium castaneum ADF-b1 to -5 (GLEAN_09955–09959; upper panel) and sequence alignment of the five ADF-b with Tenebrio molitor ADF-b (P83109) and cuticle protein TmPCP9.2 (Baernholdt and Anderson 1998). The putative mature peptides located at the carboxy termini are indicated by a box. The conserved intron position is marked on the top of the sequence alignment. Note that all five ADF-b genes are predicted to have small introns at the homologous position in the signal peptides with phase 0.