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Appendix 2: Insert of Clone 9; Sequence Range: 1 to 13753




Appendix 3: Partial insert of clone 12. Sequence Range: 1 to 6506


Appendix 4: Consecutive alignment of exon L (Gene I) to exon Z (Gene III)







Appendix 5: Arguments for differences and similarities in gene sequences of clone 1 and 9

1) Identities in intergenic region between clones= 97 (Differences below)

2) Introns and Exons of identical regions of clones 1 and 9 showing discrepancies

Publications and conference abstracts

Manuscript from this study

Babila J. Tachu, Smitha Pillai, Richard Lucius, and Thomas Pogonka: Acanthocheilonema viteae Chitinase Genes: Structure and Expression. (In preparation).

Conference abstracts from this study

Babila J. Tachu, Richard Lucius, Jörg Hirzmann, Vincent P.K.Titanji, Thomas Pogonka, (2003): Molecular characterisation of Acanthocheilonema viteae chitinase. Meeting of the Federation of African Societies for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology held in Yaounde, Cameroon.

Babila J. Tachu, Richard Lucius, Jörg Hirzmann, Vincent P.K. Titanji, Thomas Pogonka (2004): Molecular characterisation of Acanthocheilonema viteae chitinase genes. 21st Meeting of the German Society for Parasitology meeting held in Würzburg, Germany.

Michel J. Sereda, Smitha Pillai, Babila J. Tachu, Susanne Hartmann, Thomas Pogonka, and Richard Lucius (2005): Studies on subunit vaccines against infection with the parasitic nematode Acanthocheilonema viteae in a rodent model. Vaccine Congress Berlin 2005