FIG 3.

Regulation of gene activities independent of the changes of genome organization between the urediniospore and germ tube stages. (A) The plot of z normalized similarity score of Hi-C data generated from urediniospores and germ tubes. Each dot represents a 100-kb window. Red dots are highly dissimilar regions (z normalized similarity score of ≤−1.2), while light red dots are noisy regions (signal-to-noise ratio of <0.6). (B) Examples of two chromosomal regions with conformational changes (left and middle) and one region with conformational conservation (right). (C) Distribution of accumulated length of dissimilar regions over chromosomes. Dashed line represents linear modeled regression. (D) Comparison of expression fold changes of genes between highly dissimilar regions and conservation regions.