Fig. 2.—

Alignment of the original Ce. japonicum nad3 gene with the modified Ce. japonicum nad3 (“T” deleted from base 36; red box) and copies of the nad3 gene from Ch. crispus, Gracilaria vermiculophylla, G. andersonii, Sp. durum, C. polysiphoniae, and V. lanosa. Manual deletion of one ‘T’ from the string of 26 “T”s and 3 “C”s between 32 and 60 bp from the start codon restores conservation of the length and sequence of the Ce. japonicum nad3 gene. Genes are shown with the amino acid translation below.