Fig. 1.
The structure of a typical Leishmania chromosome: chromosome 2 of Leishmania major. The location and coding strands of the 74 protein-coding genes are shown as coloured boxes, coded according to the categories indicated below. The majority are genes conserved with other eukaryotes; distribution of the Leishmania-specific and scβ-galactosyltransferase (SCG) repeat family genes are also shown, together with three pseudogenes. Other chromosomal features include the telomeric hexamer repeats, the spliced leader tandem array and the ribosomal mobile element (RIME) degenerate LTR transposons.