Fig. 2.
Chromosomal distribution of small RNAs from immature ears. (A) Small RNAs were matched to a segment of maize chromosome 1, as described in Results. The x axis indicates the location on the contig, and the y axis indicates the abundance of the small RNA in TP5M, using miRNA-normalized abundances. The lines are representative of a moving average of 10 windows of 10,000 bp. The curly brace indicates the region expanded in B and C. (B and C) Sliding-window calculation of the sum of abundance of small RNAs matched to each location in a 250-kb region of the contig. The x axis indicates the location on the contig, and the y axis indicates the sum of abundance in TP5M. The LTR retrotransposon is marked, including the terminal repeats (black arrowheads). The values were calculated separately for wild type (B) and mop1-1 (C), and for small RNAs ≤22 nt and ≥23 nt.