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. 2023 Jan 23;6:93. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04471-4

Fig. 2. MtDNA gene order is more conserved within than between phyla.

Fig. 2

a, b. tSNE plots of all organisms within the analyzed database, colored either by phylum (a) or while highlighting classes within Chordata (b). Dotted frame—Chordates in (a), birds in (b). c, d Ratio between observed and expected genome architecture (AR rates) within each class, either with (c) or without (d) mt-tRNA genes. The vertical dashed line and grey rectangle show 1:1 ratio (indicating no difference) and ±0.25 interval around it, respectively. The expected AR-rate distribution was calculated by random sampling of 21 organisms from each class followed by label shuffling 10,000 times. The observed distribution was generated by a similar process but without shuffling. See also Supplementary Data S5 and S6 for raw data (https://figshare.com/projects/Shtolz_2022_mtDNA_evolutionary_rearrangements/156008).