Figure 1
From: Rapid detection and curation of conserved DNA via enhanced-BLAT and EvoPrinterHD analysis
Increased identification of conserved DNA in evolutionary distant orthologs via enhanced -BLAT pairwise alignments. Shown are the total number of aligning bases in pairwise BLAT and pairwise enhanced-BLAT alignments from 10 different Drosophila melanogaster genomic regions that contain conserved sequence blocks (1.3 to 4.7 kb; 27.7 kb in total) aligned to the orthologous DNAs from D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. sechellia, D. yakuba, D. erecta, D. ananassae, D. pseudoobscura, D. virilis, D. mojavensis or D. grimshawi. The average percent increase in the number of eBLAT aligning bases vs. BLAT alignments is also shown. The approximate evolutionary separation/divergence time (in million years) between D. melanogaster and the other Drosophilids is indicated in brackets.