Fig. 2

Distribution of polymorphisms in PfSPZ PacBio assemblies. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) densities (log SNPs/ 10 kb) are shown for each assembly; the scale [0–3] refers to the range of the log-scaled SNP density graphs—from 10⁰ to 10³. Inner tracks, from outside to inside, are NF54 (black), 7G8 (green), NF166.C8 (orange), and NF135.C10 (pink). The outermost tracks are the 3D7 reference genome nuclear chromosomes (chrm1 to chrm 14, in blue), followed by 3D7 genes on the forward and reverse strand (black tick marks). Peaks in SNP densities mostly correlate with subtelomeric regions and internal multi-gene family clusters