Fig. 2: Structures and locations of HESPs in three insect genomes. | Communications Biology

Fig. 2: Structures and locations of HESPs in three insect genomes.

From: Salivary proteins potentially derived from horizontal gene transfer are critical for salivary sheath formation and other feeding processes

Fig. 2

The structures and locations of RpHESPs (a), PaHESPs (b), and OfEHESPs (c) in Riptortus pedestris, Pyrrhocoris apterus, and Oncopeltus fasciatus genomes were displayed. The boxed arrows indicate gene transcription orientations. By using the online tool Spidey, the coding sequences of HESPs were matched to genomic sequences to identify the exons and introns. The flanking genes of these HESPs in the genome were analyzed and displayed in Supplementary Table 3, which validated that the HESP-contained scaffolds/chromosomes were belong to insects, but not the bacterial contaminants.

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