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 2.
Figure 2.

Moving average gene retention frequency (y-axis) in an 80-gene window for each of the five Arabidopsis chromosomes. Chromosomes are represented by all genes encoding protein (Supplemental material 1, Column A), including genes duplicated locally and genes within transposons. The gray bands cover centromeric regions delineated by the most proximal genes with a known mutant phenotype (Meinke et al. 2003).

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  1. Genome Res. 16: 934-946

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