Fig. 1

Continuity of the I. ricinus genome assembly and synteny with the I. scapularis genome. A Hi-C map of interactions for the I. ricinus genome assembly, showing 14 major scaffolds. The x and y axes give the mapping positions of the first and second read in the read pair respectively, grouped into bins. The color of each square gives the number of read pairs within that bin. Scaffolds less than 1 Mb are excluded. B Synteny between the genomes of I. scapularis and I. ricinus. Only the 15 largest scaffolds are represented for both species (the haploid chromosome number being 14). Horizontal bars represent the major scaffolds of each genome, while syntenies between the two species are indicated by identical colors