Fig. 1

Schematic representation of the gene structure and amino acid sequence alignment of P. ovale MSP-8 C-terminal fragment. a Diagram of the gene structure of pomsp-8. Both pomsp-8 genes encode a signal peptide (blue), a coiled-coil domain (yellow), two EGF-like domains (green) and a GPI-anchor (red). b The full-length msp-8 genes of 42 P. ovale isolates were amplified by PCR