Fig. 2

Viral integration events identified in the Ae. aegypti assembly AaegL5 as ordered by Xishuangbanna aedes flavivirus (XAFV) protein coding sequence regions. Unlike Ae. albopictus (see Fig. 5), the majority of mosquito sequences are grouped into the same event based on the similarity of gaps between mosquito and viral genomes (see Additional file 1: Figure S2). Some sequences are unlikely to belong to the same event (e.g. AE14.2, AE29.4, AE23.3) because they share high similarity to overlapping sequences from the same integration event, but much lower similarity to other events. For them to originate from the same original sequence would require very uneven mutation rates