ntSynt Report — Melinaea butterflies

Assembly statistics

Statistic	Value
Number of assemblies	12
Range of number of chromosomes	14 – 24
Genome size range (Mbp)	448.3 – 659.2

Source: Melinaea_butterflies_assemblies/Melinaea_butterflies_abyss_fac-summary.tsv

Synteny block statistics

Statistic	Value
Number of blocks	1,255
Average synteny coverage (%)	33.02
Synteny coverage of smallest genome (%)	39.59
N50 length of synteny blocks (bp)	413,374

Source: ntSynt.k24.w1000.synteny_blocks.stats.tsv

Reasons for synteny block discontinuities

Synteny block discontinuity reason	Count
indel	698
ori_change	429
id_change	63
inconsistent_order	60
merge	4

Source: ntSynt.k24.w1000.discontinuity_reasons.tsv

Mash divergence distributions

Pairwise mash distances across full-genome, syntenic, and non-syntenic regions. Wilcoxon signed-rank test p-value shown between syntenic and non-syntenic distributions. Interactive — hover over a point to see the genome pair. Source: mash/mash_divergence_boxplot.html

Synteny ribbon plot

Melinaea_butterflies_ribbon-plot_tree

ntSynt-viz ribbon plot showing synteny blocks across all assemblies. Nuclear genome tree included in ribbon plot. Interactive — hover to highlight, click to pin tooltips. Source: ntsynt-viz/Melinaea_butterflies_ribbon-plot_tree.html