Fig. 2.

Genomic rearrangement correlates with repetitive DNA content in Erodium plastomes. Repetitive DNA was identified by BLAST search of each genome against itself using blastn under default parameters and an e-value of 1e⁻¹⁰. One copy of the IR was removed from genomes with an IR (C. macrophylla and three Erodium species). The number of genomic rearrangements was determined by counting rearranged co-linear blocks of genes in MAUVE alignments of each genome against the unrearranged Type 2 genome of E. carvifolium. Coloured points represent Type 1 (pink), Type 2 (black), Type 3 (blue) and Type 4 (green) plastomes.