Supplementary Figure 2: ‘Desertification’ of HoxD clusters. | Nature Genetics

Supplementary Figure 2: ‘Desertification’ of HoxD clusters.

From: A single three-dimensional chromatin compartment in amphioxus indicates a stepwise evolution of vertebrate Hox bimodal regulation

Supplementary Figure 2

(a–c) Genomic organization of the mouse HoxA and HoxD and elephant shark HoxD clusters. Symbols for Hox, anterior and posterior neighboring genes are colored in black, blue and red, respectively. Several mouse long-range enhancers and their orthologs in elephant shark are represented by green bars. Red arrows indicate the two paralogous CsB enhancers that demonstrate the loss of a Hibadh2 gene from HoxA-neighboring regions and the pseudogenized remnant of mouse Jazf2. (d) VISTA plot of the Jazf2 genomic region in elephant shark (reference sequence) and mouse, showing the mouse Jazf2 pseudoexon (red asterisk) and the ancestral intronic location of mouse regulatory islands I and II. VISTA colored peaks (blue, coding; turquoise, UTR; pink, noncoding; green, mouse regulatory islands) indicate regions of at least 70 bp and ≥65% similarity. The alignment below the plot corresponds to the region indicated by the asterisk, showing several mutations in the mouse Jazf2 sequence, including splice sites (in lower case) and frameshifts.

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