Figure 1.

Genomic distances between pairs of fungal genomes at various taxonomic ranks, calculated by Dashing with k-mer size 16. The distances on the species level are between genomes in the same species, the distances on the genus level are distances between genomes of different species belonging to the same genus and so on. Density (violin) plots are plotted on top of points showing intergenomic distances (one point per genome pair). Points representing the same taxon (e.g., distances within the same species on the species level) are arranged in columns. Solid horizontal lines mark the median genomic distances, dashed horizontal lines mark the average genomic distances per taxonomic rank. The y-axis is logarithmic.