Fig. 6. (A) Sequence of the VM32E protein deletions analyzed. (B) Alignment of the protein sequences of the conserved regions in D. melanogaster and A. aegypti vitelline membrane proteins. Residues that are conserved between the two species are indicated by bars. Highly conserved residues are indicated with asterisks. Small gaps that improve the alignment are shown as dots. References: VM32E (Gigliotti et al., 1989; Adams et al., 2000), VM34C (Mindrinos et al., 1985), VM26A.2 (Popodi et al., 1988; Adams et al., 2000), VM26A.1 (Burke et al., 1987), 15a-1 and 15a-2 (Lin et al., 1993), 15a-3 (Edwards et al., 1988).