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. 2011 Jul 14;6(7):e18464. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018464

Figure 7. Length distributions of exact matches from Hox gene sequence alignments.

Figure 7

The reference distributions are: (1) mm9 WchrSA: self-alignment of all Hox gene-containing mouse chromosomes (chromosomes Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic); (2) hg18/mm9 WchrA: hgInline graphic-mmInline graphic inter-species alignments among Hox gene-containing chromosomes only. Symbols in subfigures: Red squares (hg18/mm9 hox): Hox gene CMRs from hg18/mm9 alignment; Green triangles (mm9 hox): Hox gene CMRs from mmInline graphic self-alignment; Blue pluses (hg18 hox): hox gene CMRs from hg18 self-alignment; Turquoise crosses: lay out of Inline graphic sequence sets, each randomly sampled from respective parent distributions: hg18/mm9 alignment in subfigure B and mm9 self-alignment in subfigure C. In all these random samples, Hox gene sequences have been excluded. Each sample contains the same total number of matched bases as Hox gene alignments from hg18/mm9 CMRs.