Figure 8.

Gene neighborhoods. Monte Carlo simulations (see Materials and methods) were used to identify statistically significant clusters of testis- and soma-biased genes using a series of window sizes ranging from five to 200 consecutive genes. Examples are shown for six gene neighborhoods that were found zero times in 100,000 replicated randomization tests. GADFLY [26] annotation images of the chromosomal regions for each neighborhood are shown with the genes identified by element species showing expression-bias, indicated by red boxes. The normalized intensities are shown below each neighborhood indicating high expression (yellow), moderate (red), low (blue) and below background (black). (a) A testis-biased cluster at cytological position 2L:35D4-F435, (b) a testis-biased cluster at 2R:50B1-50C6, (c) a testis-biased cluster at 2R:56E1-F9, (d) a testis-biased cluster at 2R: 59C3-D6, (e) a soma-biased cluster at 2R:47E1-F5 and (f) a soma-biased cluster at 2R:55C6-C8.