Sequence Variation in HSP40 Gene among 16 Toxoplasma gondii Isolates from Different Hosts and Geographical Locations

Table 3

Sequence characteristics of Toxoplasma gondii HSP40 including its expressed regions and introns.

Item	DNA	cDNA	CDS	Number of intron
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Length (bp)	6621–6644	1620	1011	471	595	320	278	501	629–651	533-534	547	287	367	473
A+T (%)	48.54–48.80	45.12–45.56	45.20–45.70	44.80–45.65	48.40–48.91	45.62–46.56	45.68–46.40	51.70–52.10	53.90–54.99	48.78–50.28	51.74–52.47	54.70–55.75	45.78–46.32	47.36–47.78
Transition	141	36	26	7	15	5	3	8	14	12	10	9	6	16
Transversion	54	5	3	2	6	0	0	4	8	10	9	5	1	4
	2.6	7.2	8.6	3.5	2.5	—	—	2	1.7	1.2	1.1	1.8	6	4
Distance (%)	0.1–1.0	0.1–0.7	0–1.1	0–1.1	0–1.4	0–0.9	0–1.1	0–1.8	0–1.9	0–2.1	0–1.8	0–2.1	0–1.1	0.2–1.5

= transition/transversion; — means no data here.