Figure 6

Correlation of syntenic conservation of tDNA loci with genomic distance. Estimates for each pairwise comparisons (◦) and averages over the two comparisons for each pair of species (×) are shown. For vertebrates and nematodes distances were extracted from trees provided through the UCSC browser, for Drosophilds, corrected mutation distances were used (see Methods for details). Because of the large number of tDNA loci Mus musculus and Monodelphis domestica were not used for the correlation. Parameters of the linear regression are compiled in Tab. 4