Fig. 5.

PpSP15 polymorphisms. The predicted PpSP15 mature amino acid sequence is shown (based on sequence accession # AAL11047). Lower case characters represent singletons (unique polymorphic sites) identified in this study; In bold are shared polymorphic sites found in our analyses; bold and underlined are polymorphic sites present in our analyses and also identified by [12];black box characters represent shared polymorphisms found only by [12]. Yellow, gray and white background segments represent alpha helices, beta sheets and coil, according to secondary structure prediction. Regions of PpSP15 displaying predicted MHC class II peptides are boxed