Figure 3

Distribution of rankings with tandem duplicates. Distribution of rankings of the functional classes including tandem duplicates at level 1 of the GO hierarchy of both W and C strands across all five chromosomes of Arabidopsis thaliana. The labels on the x axis refer to the Gene Ontology classifications. Refer to table 4 for a description of these annotations. This plot is the same as figure 2, but with the tandem duplicates included. This demonstrates that tandem duplicates increase clustering by a small degree in all of the most general functional classes. Note that we found some more specific classes at level 4 that were much less susceptible to tandem duplication (see main text).