Fig. 4: Starship mobility among Verticillium genomes. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Starship mobility among Verticillium genomes.

From: Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in a fungal plant pathogen and drive virulence evolution

Fig. 4

a Verticillium phylogeny as described in Fig. 1a. b Occurrence of diverse Starships across the Verticillium genus. Columns indicate different Starships with their length and number of captain and captain-like tyrosine recombinase (YR) genes. The heatmap indicates the query coverage, Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) of Starship regions (Starship ANI), and the difference between Starship ANI and genome-wide ANI for each pairwise strain comparison to detect potential horizontal transfers. Red arrows indicate the Starship highlighted in (c). c Circular plot depicting the synteny among regions of four V. dahliae and two V. nonalfalfae strains harboring orthologous Ar1h1 Starships. See Fig. 2a legend for the details of symbols. d Synteny plots between the V. dahliae JR2 genome and the Ar1h1 Starhip regions in (c). Each plot indicates the synteny between the JR2 chromosomes (Y-axis) and each chromosome (chr) or contig (ctg) containing the Ar1h1 Starship (X-axis), with diagonal lines colored by syntenic JR2 chromosome. Red background indicates the coordinates of Ar1h1 Starship.

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