Figure 3

Clusters of closely related WSP proteins (n = 252) estimated by eBURST. Circles correspond to distinct proteins; area of the circles is proportional to the number of allele variants coding for a protein. Clusters of linked proteins (i.e. WSP complexes C1-57) are identified as groups of proteins sharing three out of four HVR haplotypes (SHVs) with a primary founder (in blue); subgroup founders (yellow) connect to double HVR variants (DHV). In red are recombinant proteins within a complex, labeled with the corresponding allele number or a representative allele in case of multiple variants (*). For clarity only complexes with at least three proteins or recombinants were labeled (C1-19, C47, C51). 183 singletons were removed. Refer to Additional file 2 for profile and allele identification within complexes.