Syntenic genes encoding predicted exported proteins.

Genes marked with an asterisk were also identified by Sargeant et al. [17]. Several of the orthologues of the 11 proteins did not have an identifiable signal or HT-motif. Close examination of the genomic DNA sequence revealed that in several cases the annotated open reading frame could be extended before the predicted start codon to produce a larger N-terminus that contained both a signal sequence and HT-motif. Several other features of some of the orfs were identified that led us to annotate them slightly differently. These changes are listed in Table S5.