Conservation of Nucleosome Positions in Duplicated and Orthologous Gene Pairs

Figure 2

Boxplots of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between nucleosome position profiles in the promoters of 347 orthologous gene pairs between Aspergillus fumigatus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The same number of gene pairs was chosen at random to serve as a control. Dots indicate correlation coefficients. The distributions of correlation coefficients did not significantly differ (𝑃-value = 0.28 in Kolmogorov-Smirnov test) between the orthologous gene promoters and the controls.