Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Immunol. 2008 Sep 1;181(5):3393–3399. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.5.3393

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Allelic configuration of 14 gene loci for 14 chicken Mhc-B haplotypes. Haplotype numbers B2 to B24 are listed vertically on the left-handed side of the figure and the consecutive gene names BG1 to BF2 are presented horizontally at the top of the figure. Dark blue boxes indicate shared gene alleles perfectly matched in both amino acid and nucleotide sequences. Light blue boxes indicate perfect matches only within the amino acid sequences. Numbers in the boxes represent the allele identity. For example, the gene loci BLB1*B6 and BLB1*B8 belong to the identical allelic group 2 and they have perfectly matched amino acid and nucleotide sequences in the coding sequences. BLB1*B9 and BLB1*B11 belong to the identical allelic group 5 but match perfectly only in amino acid sequence. Orange and yellow backgrounds illustrate wide-ranged allele shared regions in B5, B8, and B11 and B12 and B19, respectively. Identification of allele sharing between different haplotypes is supported by the phylogenetic trees reconstructed for each locus in Supplemental Fig. 1B.