Fig. 1

Detail of the nucleotide alignment for the different CCL16 pseudogenes (only a part of the mouse sequence is shown). *1 and *2 represent different alleles. The characteristic Cys Cys motif is boxed and the premature Stop codons are shaded in light grey. The frameshift mutations are shaded in dark grey (a). Detail of the Mexican cottontail deletion at the beginning of exon 2 (b)