Figure 3

Fine-scale synteny and sequence conservation between H. erato and H. melpomene. Top bar represents approximately 180 kb of sequence covering two BACs (clone AEHM-41C10 accession number CR974474; and clone AEHM-7G12 accession number CT955980) for H. melpomene and the bottom bar represents 180 kb of sequence in two large contigs for H. erato (clone BBAM-38A20, accession numbers AC193804). Black circles below bars represent hypothetical open reading frames (ORFs) greater than 60 amino acids, with the larger circles representing putative ORFs greater than 150 amino acids. Within each bar, the grey areas indicate repetitive sequence with the black regions indicating exon/intron structure of 13 predicted proteins (with arrow above bar indicating direction) showing a high similarity to known proteins in other arthropods. A visual representation of the global alignment between the two genomic sequences and the level of synteny is show at the bottom of the figure. The lines between the two sequences unite regions with high sequence identity (>85% of similarity). For gene annotations see Table 2.