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Figure 4

From: Billions of basepairs of recently expanded, repetitive sequences are eliminated from the somatic genome during copepod development

Figure 4

Sequence 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.

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