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From: Expansion of tandem repeats in sea anemone Nematostella vectensis proteome: A source for gene novelty?

Figure 3

Properties of the TRs in N. vectensis. (A) The distribution of the TR-unit length for all 3212 unique TR sequences from N. vectensis. A unit length of 10-12 amino acids is most frequent. The tail of the length distribution (of repeats longer than >60 amino acids) is not shown. (B) The relationship between TR-unit length, total length of the TR-segment (in pink) and the average number of repeats (copy number, blue). As the length of the TR-unit increases, the copy number of the repeats decreases. (C) Comparison of the variation rate within TR-segments from N. vectensis (blue) and human (pink). Variation rate is measured up to a 20% cumulative difference in the sequence of the TR-segment relative to the consensus TR-unit. For details, see Additional file 1.

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