FIG 2 .

Telomere healing events identified in the genome of the parasite 3D7. (A) The five telomere healing events identified in the genome of the reference 3D7 sequence. The chromosome number is shown along with the gene structure of each subtelomeric region. For each gene, the gene family is indicated as well as the annotation number (provided by PlasmoDB.org). (B) Two additional telomere healing events identified in a clonal line of 3D7. The event that occurred on chromosome 2 (top) resulted in deletion of ~110 kb and led to truncation of the lsap2 gene (PF3D7_0202100), while the healing event on chromosome 3 resulted in loss of ~85 kb and added telomere repeats just downstream of a gene encoding a predicted alpha/beta-hydrolase (PF3D7_0301300).