Fig. 3

Coverage differences between male and female reads of four dioecious Amaranthus species mapped to A. palmeri scaffold assembly. A Analysis of scaffold regions with male- or female-enriched coverages with DifCover pipeline. The y-axis represents the proportion of scaffold the specific region occupies. Orange color is used to indicate regions on the previously identified male-specific region of the Y on scaffold 20. B Read alignment coverage from bamCoverage analysis for scaffold 20. Genes exhibiting male-enriched coverages were visualized within a 10-kb window. C All significantly different regions for each scaffold plotted as total proportion of the scaffold length. Species name abbreviations represent the EPPO code for the five dioecious species: AMAAK (Amaranthus acanthochiton) ACGCA (Amaranthus cannabinus), AMAGG (Amaranthus greggii), AMAWA (Amaranthus watsonii), and AMATU (Amaranthus tuberculatus)