Fig. 9.

The conservation of the FtsZ core is in stark contrast to the hyper-variability of the FtsZ CTT sequences and resulting SERs. (A) Checkerboard plot of the pairwise distances extracted from a MSA shows minimal variation between pairs of cores. (B) Data from MSAs of CTT sequences exhibit a bimodality whereby the sequences are either very similar or very different from one another. The colorbar used to annotate panels (A) and (B) are the same. (C) Checkerboard plot of pairwise differences between ensemble entropy matrices for FTsZ CTTs.