Fig. 1
Schematic representation of the chromosomal msp7 loci in 13 Plasmodium genomes. The genes flanking the msp7 chromosome region in Plasmodium species are represented by orange boxes. The coloured boxes within flanking sequences represent msp7 genes in each species whilst black boxes symbolise pseudogenes. The genes are given in alphabetical order from left to right. The dashed lines connect orthologous genes. All genes are represented to scale, but the distance between them is not representative. Question marks refer to what were not clearly orthologous relationships. By contrast with hominid-parasites, species from monkey-parasite and rodent-parasite lineages seem to have similar evolutionary histories regarding msp7 expansion. The grey boxes are lineage-specific genes only found in hominid-parasite species, as they do not belong to the msp7 family (the latter gene representations are not to scale)