Spliced Leader RNA gene repeat sequence alignments used to investigate relationships among the Costa Rican isolates (Westenberger et al. 2004)

1. From -100 position upstream of the exon to the end of T-tract immediately downstream of the intron (in PHYLIP format, click here). The region used for PCR amplification of the repeats (positions 21-42) is excluded.

2. The same sequences, unaligned, in the FASTA format (click here)

3. Complete, unaligned sequences in FASTA format (click here)

Click here to view the neighbour-joining tree inferred from SL repeat alignment 1 described below. Clades designated with numbers (e.g. 25E or 62) represent novel species of trypanosomatids. Bootstrap values are shown next to some clades. Scale bare indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.
   
The sequences and the alignment of the Ecuador isolates along with the larger set of Costa Rican sequences (Maslov et al., 2006, submitted)

1. Complete, unaligned sequences in FASTA format (click here)

2. Partial sequences (from -100 to the T-tract, excluding the primers), unaligned in FASTA format (click here)

3. Partial sequences, aligned, in NEXUS format (click here)