Chromosome and gene copy number variation allow major structural change between species and strains of Leishmania

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Figure 4.
Figure 4.

Distribution of normalized allele frequencies according to inferred ploidy for L. mexicana and L. braziliensis chromosomes. (A) L. mexicana disomic chromosomes: Chr 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 13, 18–25, 28, 29, 31–34. (B) L. mexicana trisomic chromosomes: Chr 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 26, 27. (C) L. mexicana tetrasomic chromosomes with disomic base frequency profiles: Chr 5, 16. (D) L. mexicana tetrasomic chromosome: Chr 30. (E) L. braziliensis trisomic chromosomes: Chr 1–3, 6–13, 15–28, 30, 32–35. (F) L. braziliensis tetrasomic chromosomes: Chr 4, 5, 29. (G) L. braziliensis hexasomic chromosome: Chr 31.

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  1. Published in Advance October 28, 2011, doi: 10.1101/gr.122945.111 Genome Res. 21: 2129-2142

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