Table 3. Predicted numbers of amino acid residues and presence (+) or absence (−) of chitin-binding domains of the proteins putatively encoded by the chitinase and chitinase-like genes, availabilities of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in GenBank database and the localization of the genes in A. gambiae genome.

Gene name	Amino acid residues	Chitin-binding domain	Availability of EST	Chromosomal localization
AgCht2	485	−	−	chr2L:17,484,432–17,488,543
AgCht4	477	+	+	chr2L:13,688,629–13,690,127
AgCht5-1	571	+	+	chr2R:21,584,333–21,587,318
AgCht5-2	412	−	+	chr2R:21,582,374–21,583,826
AgCht5-3	413	−	+	chr2R:21,578,829–21,580,211
AgCht5-4	409	−	+	chr2R:21,576,773–21,578,085
AgCht5-5	446	−	+	chr2R:21,573,544–21,574,884
AgCht6	3045	+	+	chrX:3,235,497–3,246,126
AgCht7	1017	+	+	chr2L:39,004,840–39,009,056
AgCht8	525	+	+	chr2L:31,040,019–31,041,796
AgCht9	789	−	+	chr3L:13,859,882–13,862,726
AgCht10	2402	+	+	chr3R:24,101,945–24,110,279
AgCht11	428	−	+	chrX:7713939–7717183
AgCht12	382	−	−	chr2L:25,704,430–25,705,882
AgCht13	388	−	+	chr2L:4,327,860–4,329,091
AgCht16	354	−	+	chr3R:25,026,860–25,027,921
AgCht23	442	+	−	chr2L:13,682,087–13,683,505
AgCht24	360	−	+	chr2L:27,626,337–27,627,404
AgIDGF4	447	−	+	chr3R:4,938,228–4,939,922
AgIDGF2	439	−	+	chr3R:4,934,452–4,937,215