FIG 5.
Relationship between conservation and predicted secondary structure. (A) Plotting of the MFE Z-scores for predicted secondary structures as a function of feature conservation in different genomes indicates a trend toward more predicted secondary structure (i.e., a lower MFE Z-score) in the more conserved segments. (B) The trend toward more predicted secondary structure (i.e., a lower MFE Z-score) becomes stronger when only sense RNAs are considered.