Fig. 6.

The Hebraein/microplusin family of tick antimicrobial peptides. Cysteine residues are indicated in black background. Histidine residues in the amino and carboxy termini are marked in red (gray). Acidic residues following His residues at position +1 or +2 are also indicated. A) Clustal alignment. B) Unrooted phylogram showing bootstrap values >75%. The bar at the bottom indicates 10% amino acid change. Sequences starting with OC- are from O. coriaceus. Remaining sequences are named with the first three letters of the genus and first two letters of the species name, followed by the NCBI accession number.