Fig. 3

Percent proportion of each order of transposable elements in the non-whitefly and whitefly group. Box plots comparing percent genome proportion of each order of TEs between the non-whitefly and the whitefly group. The box represents the interquartile range (25th to 75th percentile) values and the line in the middle of the box represents the middle quartile (50th percentile or median). The upper whisker represents the values 1.5 times larger than the 75th percentile and the lower whisker represents the values smaller than the 25th percentile. (A) The overview of the distribution of TEs classes between the non-whitefly and whitefly groups. The majority of the TEs identified were DNA transposons, most abundant in whitefly genomes. (B) The comparison of the distribution of retrotransposons between the non-whitefly and whitefly group. SINEs distribution varies significantly across the non-whitefly group; the D. citri genome assembly having the highest at 3% while none was detected in M. persicae genome assembly