The Roles and Evolutionary Patterns of Intronless Genes in Deuterostomes

Figure 5

Distribution of eukaryote-specific intronless genes specific to different eukaryotic taxonomic group combinations for each species. su: sea urchin; sq: sea squirt; z: zebrafish; c: chicken; p: platypus; h: human. F: fungi; M: metazoans; O: other eukaryotes; P: plants; FM: fungi and metazoans; FO: fungi and other eukaryotes; FP: fungi and plants; MO: metazoans and other eukaryotes; MP: metazoans and plants; OP: other eukaryotes and plants; FMO: fungi, metazoans and other eukaryotes; FMP: fungi, metazoans and plants; FOP: fungi, other eukaryotes and plants; MOP: metazoan, other eukaryotes and plants FMOP: fungi, metazoans, other eukaryotes and plants.