Figure 1.

P. papatasi dorsal and relish amino acid sequences. (A,B)- Signature domains identified on the amino acid sequence: grey boxes indicate the rel homology domain (RHD), rel homology dimerization domain (RHDD), and ankyrin repeat domain; numeric scales indicate amino acid positions. (C)- Phylogram of amino acid sequences from P. papatasi and other organisms’ transcription factors inferred by the Maximum Likelihood method, with the WAG model and Gamma distribution. Mammalian nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NF-AT) sequences were used as an outgroup. Numbers on branch nodes indicate bootstrap values higher than 50 %. Phlebotomus papatasi dorsal and relish sequences are indicated by a black circle and triangle, respectively. Species names are followed by corresponding VectorBase (P. papatasi) or GenBank (other species) accession numbers; the scale bar indicates the number of substitutions per site.