FIG. 1.—

Gene and physical map of the Blastocystis MLO genome. Black blocks represent genes and ORFs that are transcribed clockwise (outside of circle) or counterclockwise (inside of circle). Gray blocks represent tRNA genes. tRNA genes are identified by their linked amino acid (single-letter code). M_f and M_e1/M_e2 are initiator and elongator methionyl tRNAs, respectively. The inner circle shows the size scale. The map was created using GenomeViz 1.1 [Ghai et al. 2004]). Because of overlapping coding regions (see text and supplementary table S2, Supplementary Material online), gaps between adjacent genes are not always present.