Following tetraploidy in an Arabidopsis ancestor, genes were removed preferentially from one homeolog leaving clusters enriched in dose-sensitive genes

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.

Partial screenshot of a “cluster” in our Viewer aligning 42–43 kb of the α-syntenous region of chromosomes 2 and 4 anchored on a serine o-acetyltransferase gene pair (bold arrowhead). The colored rectangles are bl2seq HSPs (high scoring pairs) found using standard settings and e-value cutoffs (Inada et al. 2003) noted in the settings box. Black lines connect known α-pairs of genes. The red line connects genes into a pair whose subject genes (exons) were not called by TIGR, and is now called an “Our Additional” (_oa) gene in Supplemental material 1, Column A. The turquoise line connects two groups of syntenous HSPs that required further research to explain; these were eventually called “conserved non-coding sequences” belonging to the gene pair to the left.

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  1. Genome Res. 16: 934-946

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