Extended Data Fig. 4: Expression levels of orthologs with contiguous and disrupted open reading frame (ORF).
From: European maize genomes highlight intraspecies variation in repeat and gene content
Consolidated mappings discovered several thousand genes for which the entire cross-mapping of the top-scoring consolidation model had no contiguous but a disrupted ORF. These genes exhibit highly similar expression levels to their nondisrupted orthologs illustrated here for lines EP1 and F7. a, shows the control correlation and linear regression (red line) of a random sample of F7 and EP1 orthologous pairs for which both genes have a contiguous ORF. To obtain comparable sample sizes and expression ranges, random sampling was restricted to gene pairs with a maximal TPM ≤ 100. b, and c, display expression correlations between gene pairs with exactly one disrupted and one contiguous ORF, while in subfigure d, both orthologous partners contain a disrupted ORF. N: number of pairs, r2: coefficient of determination.
