Figure 4From: Billions of basepairs of recently expanded, repetitive sequences are eliminated from the somatic genome during copepod developmentSequence divergence distributions of repeats in the germline (red) and soma (green) of Mesocyclops edax . The y axis is the proportion of reads out of the total germline or somatic repeat dataset comprised of repeats of a given sequence divergence/age class, allowing comparisons of the distribution shapes between the two genomes. Sequence divergence distributions of both genomes are skewed towards younger (i.e. less divergent) elements. High proportions of repeats <1% diverged from the consensus demonstrate recent/ongoing repeat proliferation.Back to article page