The tick microplusin family of antimicrobial peptides.

<p>A) ClustalW alignment. The symbols at the top of the figure represent (*) identity, (:) similarity, and (.) lesser similarity. B) The neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree from the alignment in (A) following 1,000 bootstraps. Sequence names are represented by the first three letters of the genus name, followed by the first three letters of the species name, followed by their GenBank gene identifier (gi) accession number. Sequences from this work start with IrHem and include IrHemSgMg-674, which is 140-times overexpressed in haemocytes. <i>Ixodes ricinus</i> sequences are indicated by a red circle. The bar at the bottom represents 50% amino acid diversity. The numbers at the nodes represent the per cent bootstrap support. Values below 50 are not shown.