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. 2014 Sep 9;5:4754. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5754

Figure 2. Number and organization of multigene families encoding proteins exported into the infected erythrocyte.

Figure 2

(a) Dendrograms of the exported kinase (FIKK) and PHIST domain containing proteins showing one-to-one orthologous pairing between P. reichenowi (blue) and P. falciparum (red). Two P. falciparum FIKK genes have no protein coding orthologue (starred) because the homologous genes have become pseudogenes in P. reichenowi (Supplementary Fig. 5). (b) Distribution of the number of intact members of the var, rif and stevor families within each defined subclass in both P. falciparum (Pf) and P. reichenowi (Pr). (c) Dendrograms of the rif and stevor protein families in P. falciparum and P. reichenowi, showing P. reichenowi-specific expansions in both cases.