Figure 4

Alignment of Tgmt* subterminal direct repeats. The repeated sequences vary in length and they have been organized in this figure starting from the 3'end of the transposon right border. Each direct repeat was read from the 3'-end to the 5'-end. A consensus sequence motif was deduced and is shown boxed. This larger motif can be subdivided into two smaller sub-motifs. One is TTGGCAG that is present in all repeats (shown in red letters in the consensus sequence motif). The second, AATCTTACAG, is more divergent and absent in its entirety in two of the repeats (shown in blue letters in the consensus sequence motif).