Table 1.

Total number of gene sequences for each VSA family for each parasite strain

		3D7	HB3	Dd2	IT
var	genes	62	38	39	49
	Pseudogenesa	1	6	4	3
	Truncated genesb	0	6	7	4
	Total	63	50	50	56
rif	genes	153	100	99	102
	Pseudogenes	28	21	21	15
	Truncated genes	3	4	13	8
	Total	184	125	132	125
stevor	stevor genes	30	17	24	25
	Pseudogenes	7	9	7	8
	Truncated genes	0	0	0	0
	Total	37	26	31	33
pfmc-2tm	genes	10	6	2	5
	Pseudogenes	3	1	0	2
	Truncated genes	0	1	1	1
	Total	13	8	3	8

^aPseudogene: one or more stop codons or frameshifts within the sequence.

^bTruncated gene: part of the gene sequence is missing, most likely due to incomplete sequencing.