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Figure 4

From: Characterisation of the legume SERK-NIKgene superfamily including splice variants: Implications for development and defence

Figure 4

Representation of the seven splice variants (SVs) identified from the MtSERK3 gene. The exons which comprise the regular SERK gene structure are shown as wide dark rectangles (numbered) on a thin grey line representing introns. SV1 contains eleven exons with the structure of a typical SERK gene. The other splice variants have one or a combination of retained intron sequences and/or loss of exon 3 in the mRNA transcript. In transcripts missing exon 3 this exon is shown as a white rectangle. Included introns are shown as grey hatched areas. The star above each sequence is in the position of the predicted stop codon. SVs 5, 6 and 7 all encode the same amino acid sequence although their transcripts differ 3' of the stop codon. SV4 was only sequenced up to exon 10 position so it is possible there was some more variation in the region of the last two exons.

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