Extended Data Fig. 3: Distribution of young/novel genes among 11 molluscan mantle transcriptomes. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extended Data Fig. 3: Distribution of young/novel genes among 11 molluscan mantle transcriptomes.

From: Evolutionary transcriptomics of metazoan biphasic life cycle supports a single intercalation origin of metazoan larvae

Extended Data Fig. 3

Histograms show the distribution of old genes (blue) and young (Bivalvia-specific or Gastropoda-specific) or novel (species-specific) genes (red) among top500 highly expressed genes for each molluscan species. There is a general tendency of higher representation of young/novel genes over old genes among 11 molluscan mantle transcriptomes. The statistical significance was evaluated using the Chi-Square test. **, p <0.05; *, p <0.01.

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