Figure 1.

Amino acidic sequences of the bracovirus-like lectins (BLL). (A) Phylogenetic relationship of the different BLLs detected in the transcriptome of Spodoptera exigua. Phylogenetic distance was calculated by the Maximum-likelihood method. Reliability of an inferred tree was determined using the bootstrap test (1000 replicates). For a clearer view of the branches, bootstrap values are reported over 100; (B) Amino acidic alignment of the three BLLs studied, indicating the presence of the predicted signal peptide (SP), the carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD), the ligand binding surface (LBS), and the conserved cysteine residues (♦).