<p>(<b>A</b>) Exon/intron structure analysis of the <i>Echinococcus p29</i> gene mapped to the alignments of full-length cDNA with the genomic DNA. The <i>p29</i> gene is of 1200 base pairs from the ATG start codon at position +1 to the TAG stop codon at positon +1200 and consists of 7 exons separated by six introns. At position P (−552) upstream of the start codon, we identified a TATA box and a eukaryotic transcriptional regulatory element. Additionally two possible polyadenylation sites were identified downstream of the TAG codon on P (+1365) and P (+1510) positions. (<b>B</b>) Graphical output of the BLAST analysis of <i>p29</i> cDNA (GenBank, accession no. AF078931) beween <i>E. granulosus</i> s.s. (G1) and <i>E. multilocularis</i> genomes performed at the <i>Echinococcus</i> blast server (available at: (available at: <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/blast/submitblast/Echinococcus" target="_blank">http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/blast/submitblast/Echinococcus</a>). The diagram shows the reads with significant BLAST scores to <i>p29</i> cDNA query (+hsps; high score probability). The reads cluster belongs to the same contig; pathogen_EgG_scaffold_0007 and pathogen EmW Chr 07 for <i>E. granulosus</i> and <i>E. multilocualris</i> respectively. Reads from the same cluster are contiguous and overlapping DNA fragments and when assembled resulted in a single and complete <i>p29</i> gene sequence.</p
