Fig. 1

Graphical representation of sequence dependent curvature. A schematic representation of the indicated trypanosomatid chromosomes are presented. Upper panel: Bar plots of chromosome positions with an IC value greater than 13  per helical turn. Middle panel: bar plots of chromosome positions with an RIIC value greater than the selected cutoff. Lower panel: both DNA strands are depicted in grey, overlaid with CDS features shown in blue. Features labeled as ncRNA, snRNA or snoRNAs are shown in green. tRNAs are shown in red. Assembly gaps are shown in brown. For T. brucei chromosome 5 subtelomeric VSG clusters are underlined