Fig. 2.

Location of degenerate primers for amplifying new Babesia bovis Mo7 strain smorf genes. The gray line represents the genome backbone. Black arrows show the positions of the primers. A generic smorf gene is represented by the light gray box. Primer F1 is located at the 5′ end of the open reading frame. Sequences of the primers are indicated in Section 2.2.4. Numbers indicate the predicted amino acid number.