Fig. 2

Culex quinquefasciatus J3 and J5 genome comparison and gene evolution in mosquitoes. A The abundance of protein-coding genes and the percentage of their exon coverage in the genome assemblies of four mosquito species. The abundance of genes and exon coverage are shown as green and orange bars, respectively. B The boxplots of the exon lengths of the protein-coding genes (top) and the numbers of exons per one protein-coding gene (bottom) in the log2-scale for the genomic assemblies of four mosquito species. Red dots indicate the mean values, and red error bars indicate standard errors of the mean values. The statistical significance of differences was measured with the unpaired Wilcoxon test. C The percentage of the proteomes in the genomes of four mosquito species including J3 and J5 assemblies of Cx. quinquefasciatus, occupied by members of the gene families (see “ Methods”). Proteins were included to the same family if their identity to each other were ≥50% along ≥70% of their lengths. Only families with at least three members are shown. D Gene ontology (GO) for protein families identified as expanded for Cx. quinquefasciatus in relation to other dipterans (see “ Methods”)