Fig. 3

Sequence analyses of the T. lewisi maxicircle divergent region. Self Dottup graph of the T. lewisi entire maxicircle (a), DR section I (b), DR section II (d). Each dot represents an exact match over of 10 nt. Two distinct sections of DR region (I and II) are indicated in (a) with red boxes. The repeated elements (α, β, γ, α’ and β’) identified from Dottup graph in (d) are illustrated, three palindromes within elements are indicated with white triangles. c The repetitive sequences from the section I were aligned and the position of three motifs is indicated with black line. LOGO diagrams show nucleotides at a given position of each motif and their relative frequency indicated by height. e The palindrome sequences from the DR of T. lewisi, T. rangeli and T. cruzi are shown with the inverted repeats underlined