Extended Data Fig. 9: The genomic distribution of mutations contributing to the inbreeding load (upper plot), the segregating load (middle plot) and the drift load (bottom plot).
From: Genomic and fitness consequences of a near-extinction event in the northern elephant seal
In each plot, the position of each SNP in the reference genome is shown along the x-axis and the number of individuals carrying each mutation is shown on the y-axis. The northern elephant seal is represented by dark grey points above the dotted line and the southern elephant seal is represented by light grey points below the dotted line, as shown in the legend. The white and grey shaded blocks in the background indicate the boundaries of consecutive scaffolds within the reference genome, with the number on top referring to the scaffold ID (where ‘XX.X’ stands for the chromosomal scaffold ‘NC_0723XX.X’).
