Figure 2.—

Multiple sequence alignment of TRA proteins from L. cuprina, C. capitata, B. oleae, A. obliqua, and D. melanogaster. Identical amino acids are shaded in black while similar amino acids are shaded in gray. Vertical red lines indicate the corresponding locations of the exon/intron boundaries in the L. cuprina and tephritid tra genes. Arrows indicate the conserved motifs that were the basis of the degenerate primers that were used to amplify Lctra cDNA sequence.