Figure 3.

The positions of microsatellite markers used in this study, relative to gene positions. Markers were derived from 2 scaffolds from the Vicugna pacos Ensembl genome (GeneScaffold_809 and GeneScaffold_2179). The dotted line represents the hypothetical join between these scaffolds based on conservation of this gene order in human, bovine, murine, and canine genomes (http://www.ensembl.org/). The lower part of the figure shows the 29 exons of the alpaca KIT gene as vertical bars separated by intronic sequences.