Figure 3

Comparison of length, nucleotide composition in control regions (CRs) and stem-loop structures of 13 Trionychidae species. The first structure shows the linearized representation of CR and stem-loop structures of the origin of L-strand replication. Blue color boxes shows the tandem repeats within the CR. OL = Overlapping regions are marked by blue-white pattern. TLCR = Total length of the CR. Nucleotides marked by green circles represent the conserved sequence motif. The tandem repeats were predicted by the online Tandem Repeats Finder web tool (https://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.html) and the putative secondary structures were predicted by the online Mfold web server (http://unafold.rna.albany.edu). The figure was edited manually in Adobe Photoshop CS 8.0.