Filled circles denote sequence similarity in pairwise comparisons of de novo assemblies, and diamonds denote pairwise comparisons between de novo assemblies and the reference assembly, which has the checker haplotype. Percent similarity is much lower in this plot than in
Figure 5C because the number of polymorphisms between pairwise comparisons is similar, but the total number of segregating sites is much lower in this small dataset than in the comparison among many resequenced genomes. In the larger dataset depicted in
Figure 5C, the higher number of SNPs was driven largely by sequence diversity among the 16 bar birds. We identified 105 SNPs in the de novo assemblies that we not called in the resequencing data. Of these, 31 differ in the pairwise comparison between the checker and
C. guinea assemblies, 84 differ between checker and bar, and 98 differ between bar and
C. guinea. Total polymorphic sites between de novo assemblies in the 92,199 bp intersection among all three de novo assemblies: bar-checker, 1343; checker-
C. guinea, 212; bar-
C.guinea, 1361. Total polymorphic sites between de novo assemblies and the reference (checker) genome: bar-reference, 1342; checker-reference, 11;
C. guinea-reference, 205.