Figure 7

Sequence alignment of the DBL1α-domain sequence and PCR-primers used Comparison of the DBL1α- and oligonucleotide-sequences to depict mismatches of the primers used in the original identification of the dominant var gene in the FCR3S1.2 parasite: Aligned are the "Taylor universal 2000" [43] oligonucletides, the DBL1α-sequence of var 1, var 2 of FCR3S1.2 as well as the originally used oligonucleotides named "Chen 1998" [26]. The stars indicate degenerate nucleotides in the primer pairs.