Figure 2.

The relationship between the indel mutation rate and the abundance of simple sequence repeats within the genome (%). Red data points highlight the observed indel rate of Dictyostelium discoideum from this study with respect to percent abundance of simple sequence repeats (SSRs; Srivastava et al. 2019). Black data points correspond to the following additional unicellular eukaryote species for reference: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Sung et al. 2012a); Ostreococcus tauri (Krasovec et al. 2017); Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Behringer and Hall 2016a); Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Zhu et al. 2014); Plasmodium falciparum (Hamilton et al. 2017); Sphaeroforma arctica (Long et al. 2018b).