Fig. 2

Smooth muscle-specific genes display only minor deviations when mapped within-species versus cross-species. The x-axis shows the read count from cross_match alignments to ‘self’ targets comprising within-species CDS region transcripts from R. norvegicus Ensembl gene predictions or N. stephensi de novo assemblies from BinPacker or Trinity. The y-axis shows the read count from alignments to the M. musculus GENCODE transcripts. The R. norvegicus Smtnl1 (smoothelin-like 1 transcript) is not shown because only one read was detected in the cross-species mapping and zero reads were detected in the within-species mapping. By comparison, for the N. stephensi Smtnl1 transcripts, 7064 reads were detected in the cross-species alignments and 9050 reads in the within species alignments