Sequenced 28S rRNA fragments upstream of the R2 insertion site.

The 28S junction sequences detected among the stick insects sampled with the associated R2Br variant (fun: functional; deg: degenerate) indicated at the far left. Nucleotide substitutions relative to the consensus sequence are in lower-case letters; deletions are denoted with dashes. Arrows mark the positional start of R2 sequences with the species and type (full-length or truncation length) of the element distribution indicated. The portion of the 28S sequence involved in the formation of the ribozyme P1 stem is in italic and underlined.Sequenced 28S rRNA fragments upstream of the R2 insertion site.