Figure 3

Nucleotide alignment of the coding region for the Mariner-1_SS family of transposases. A) Alignment of the ORF from the predicted element (Tn17-104) that was identified in this study to two sequences (SS1G_11070.3 and SS1G_00127.3) in the S. sclerotiorum transcript database. The SS1G_11070.3 transcript maintained the intron, while the intron was removed from the SS1G_00127.3 transcript. The intron is in bold and underlined, and numbers in parentheses indicate the number of bases that are not shown in the alignment. B) Alignment of the deduced amino acid sequences for the transposase with (SS1G_11070.3) and without (SS1G_00127.3) the intron. The presence of a dot (.) represents amino acids with low similarity, two dots (:) indicate highly similar amino acids, and an asterisk (*) shows identical amino acids.