Fig. 2

Multiple alignment of the four public mitochondrial genome assemblies. Track 1: annotated KP231180 [4]; track 2: CM0003498; track 3: KP658101 [7] and track 4: KP796149 [6]. KP231180, the longest of the four assemblies in track 1 was compared with other three mitochondrial assemblies) using the progressiveMauve algorithm implemented on the Geneious suite. CM003498 and KP658101 assemblies had shuffled sequences indicated by crisscrossing lines connecting a terminal pink block of sequence from track 1 re-located to different regions in tracks 2 and 3. Annotations could not be mapped from KP231180 to CM003498 due to the sequence shuffling. The assemblies in tracks 3 and 4, namely, KP658101 and KP796149, were also of different lengths mainly due to some deletions not seen in this illustration