Fig. 2

Hi-C interaction heatmap of the M. fortis genome assembly. The heatmap illustrates the contact density between genomic regions. The 26 assembled chromosomes are arranged in order of size. The intense signal along the diagonal of each chromosome block indicates high interaction frequency within each chromosome, validating the high quality of the chromosome-level scaffolding. The color bar reflects the logarithm of contact density, from high (dark red) to low (light yellow).