Figure 3.

Functional distribution of gene duplicates in pathogenic and non-pathogenic fungal lineages. The distribution of gene duplicates across a sample of 22 Gene Ontology (GO) terms is compared for pathogenic (blue bars) and non-pathogenic (red bars) fungal lineages. When all eleven taxa were considered, we observed significantly higher proportions of gene duplicates associated with the terms "hydrolase activity" and "receptor activity" in pathogens (*); survey of the euascomycetes indicated that gene duplicates associated with the "hydrolase activity," "carbohydrate binding," "nucleic acid binding," "regulation of transcription," and "receptor activity" terms, respectively, were enriched in pathogenic species (#).