Evidence of Gene Conversion in Genes Encoding the Gal/GalNac Lectin Complex of Entamoeba
Figure 1
Divergence across chromosomal regions genes of E. histolytica and E. dispar containing intermediate-chain lecin genes.
(A) igl1 (EHI_006980:EDI_276450); (B) igl2 (EHI_065330:EDI_244250). Divergence (d) for a 200 bp sliding window is shown (black line), and dN (blue bars) and dS (red bars) are plotted for putative coding regions. The grey line shows the proportion of gapped positions in each window, an indication of poor alignment quality. Both lectin genes show dS values near to 1, notably higher than for surrounding genes, except gene EHI_065320 which also shows dS>1.