Fig. 7

False duplication of the MTOR gene in vertebrate assemblies. a Alignment dot plot of the MTOR genes in the previous and VGP assemblies of the zebra finch. The alignment of two MTOR-like genes in the previous assembly is next to lines L1 and L2 and highlighted in pink. b Genome landscape of the MTOR gene in the VGP assembly. Heterozygosity density within 500-bp windows is shown at the top. The homologous regions of the previous assembly are represented with blue bars above each genomic position label. The falsely duplicated scaffolds including the MTOR-like gene in the previous assembly are shown with red arrows. c False gene gains of the MTOR gene in white-throated tinamou (GCF_000705375.1) and d water buffalo (GCF_000471725.1) assemblies. Scaffolds with false duplications (FD) of MTOR-like genes were aligned to parts of the original MTOR gene and indicated as red dot boxes in each panel