Figure 7.

Vista plots illustrating sequence conservation within a gene encoding an RNA-binding KH domain-containing protein that produces an exon skipping event conserved across Brachypodium, Amborella, Arabidopsis, banana, African oil palm, rice, foxtail millet, sorghum, and maize. The exon skipping in Arabidopsis is not included in the Araport11, but detected in AtRTD. The alternative exon (boxed in red) is highly conserved between Brachypodium and its orthologs across the other plant species examined. Levels of sequence identity between Brachypodium and its orthologs in the eight other plants species displayed are depicted as blue peaks. Pink bars signify segments that pass the alignment criteria of 70% identity over a 100 bp window.