Extended Data Fig. 2: Conservation of Merian elements relative to bilaterian linkage groups.
From: Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera
a, Total number of orthologues per Merian element that could be assigned to a bilaterian linkage group (BLG). b, Heatmap of the proportion of orthologues of each Merian element found on each BLG. The labels of the Merian elements are coloured according to whether the Merian element showed a higher variation in the distribution of orthologues on BLGs than expected compared to a null model of random orthologue assignment weighted by the number of orthologues per BLG, indicating an uneven contribution of BLGs. Merian elements with less than 15 orthologues assigned to a BLG could not be assessed because they had too few data points to model a null distribution. c, Total number of orthologues per bilaterian linkage group (BLG) that could be assigned to Merian elements.
