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From: Evolution and homoplasy at the Bem6 microsatellite locus in three sweetpotato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) cryptic species

Figure 2

Description and arrangement of heptanucleotide building blocks in a homoplasic Bem6 allele from four cryptic B. tabaci species. A) Four different tandem repeat motifs revealed by sequencing Bem6 alleles. Species specific deviants are noted with asterisks. B) Homoplasy among species caused by differential presence/absence and order of motifs. An extra cytosine residue appears on MEAM1 and MED but not NW samples. Allele names are based on the average of estimated microsatellite fragment lengths calculated by Genemapper 4.0. The corresponding region of the originally described microsatellite [38] for the Australia species is shown for comparison. Four nucleotides absent from the originally described microsatellite precede the repeat region in MEAM1, MED, and NW whiteflies.

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