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Fig. 3

From: Nested plant LTR retrotransposons target specific regions of other elements, while all LTR retrotransposons often target palindromes and nucleosome-occupied regions: in silico study

Fig. 3

Preferential sites (hotspots) of nesting for Ty3/gypsy (a) and Ty1/copia (b) LTR retrotransposons. Bars show observed (red) number of insertions into specific retrotransposon regions together with expected (yellow) number that were normalized by the region length. The over- or under-representation of nested elements in specific regions depends on the comparison of numbers of observed and expected elements. Nesting of Ty3/gypsy (c, e) and Ty1/copia (d, f) LTR retrotransposons with high (e, f) or low (c, d) insertion time differences between original and nested insertions. Asterisks mark statistically significant differences between observed and expected numbers of nesting (p < 0.05; FDR corrected p-value of pairwise comparison after a global chi-squared goodness of fit test)

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