Figure 5. Motif analysis of OBPs in the genus Spodoptera.

Parameters used for motif discovery were: minimum width = 6, maximum width = 10, maximum number of motif to find = 8. The upper parts listed the eight motifs discovered in the 78 OBPs using MEME⁶³ (version 4.9.1) on line server (http://meme.nbcr.net/meme/). The lower parts indicate approximate locations of each motif on the protein sequence. The numbers in the boxes correspond to the numbered motifs in the upper part of the figure, where small number indicates high conservation. The numbers on the bottom showed the approximate locations of each motif on the protein sequence, starting from the N-terminal. This figure just listed the most common 10 motif-patterns which presented in 66 OBPs, with each motif-pattern present in more than two OBPs, the remaining 12 OBPs had 8 different motif-patterns with each of them presented in less than three OBPs. The protein names and sequences of the 78 of OBPs from S. litura, S. littoralis and S. exigua were listed in Supplementary Table 4.