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Figure 2

From: Faster growth with shorter antigens can explain a VSG hierarchy during African trypanosome infections: a feint attack by parasites

Figure 2

Distribution of expressed VSG length during T. brucei infection. The first panel shows the distribution of VSG lengths as in Fig. 1a but in box-plot format. The other panels report the distribution of VSGs expressed in the bloodstream of mouse number 4 in Mugnier et al.9. Note how the distribution of length shifts towards shorter VSGs during the initial phases of infection and then moves towards longer VSGs in the later phases. The blue dashed line indicates the mean length of VSGs in the genome and the green dashed line is the weighted mean of expressed VSG lengths in the population. This trend was observed in all four mice; See Supplementary Figure S3 for data from the other mice9.

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