Table 2. Amino acid similarities and identities between the different members of the PvMSP3 family.

%	PvMSP3.1 (γ)	PvMSP3.2	PvMSP3.3 (β)	PvMSP3.4	PvMSP3.5	PvMSP3.6	PvMSP3.7	PvMSP3.8	PvMSP3.9	PvMSP3.10 (α)	PvMSP3.11
PvMSP3.1 (γ)		41	31.6	34	31.8	35.5	29.9	36.7	29.4	34.8	19.2
PvMSP3.2	56.8		31.4	32.7	31.8	37.6	28.5	36.8	27.8	33.3	18.5
PvMSP3.3 (β)	47.9	48.5		34.1	34.1	31.8	34	32.5	31.2	32	18.2
PvMSP3.4	45.4	46.7	52.3		72.6	33	44.8	33.5	41.8	29.9	16.6
PvMSP3.5	45.1	46.4	51.5	83.4		33.4	47	32.8	42.9	29.6	16.1
PvMSP3.6	54.5	55.3	50	47.9	48		29.5	81.8	29.3	40.1	19.2
PvMSP3.7	42.7	44	49.6	61.2	63.8	44.4		30	63.2	29.9	16.4
PvMSP3.8	55.9	55.5	50.5	49.4	48.1	87.8	45.7		29.2	39.9	20.5
PvMSP3.9	41.5	42.2	48.3	57.7	59	43.1	74.8	43.4		27.5	14.6
PvMSP3.10 (α)	54	51.2	47.6	43.7	43.3	59.4	43.2	58.2	40.8		19
PvMSP3.11	27.6	27.2	25.3	23	23.3	27.6	23.1	27.9	20.8	27.7

Similarities (italics) and identities (bolded) were generated with the MatGAT 2.0 program (http://www.bitincka.com/ledion/matgat/) and the BLOSUM50 scoring matrix.