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Figure 2

From: The predominantly selfing plant Arabidopsis thaliana experienced a recent reduction in transposable element abundance compared to its outcrossing relative Arabidopsis lyrata

Figure 2

Copy number distribution of TEs in both genomes. The figure shows a histogram of element copy number (horizontal axis) divided into families shared between the two genomes and unique families (inset). Dark grey bars represent the number of families in A. thaliana and light grey bars in A. lyrata. The dashed lines of the same shading indicate the average copy number per family for the respective species. We note that for each copy number value on the horizontal axis, the bars for both A. thaliana and A. lyrata originate at a value of zero on the vertical axis. Thus, bars are not stacked, despite their visual appearance, and do not represent the sum of copies in both species. We used this format to ensure visual clarity despite the large number of bars in each histogram. Notice the different vertical scales for shared and unique families.

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