Figure 8

Conservation of intron positions in ancient and recent eukaryotic paralogs. Conservation of introns was assessed by analysis of multiple alignments of paralogous sequences from 6 species (H. sapiens, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, S. pombe, S. cerevisiae, A. thaliana). An intron position was considered to be conserved if it was shared by any pair of paralogs [148].