Fig. 2

Genome structure of Microsporidia sp. MB, showing contigs larger than 10 kb to focus on the significant portions of the assembly. The figure illustrates gene density and organization across these contigs, with the Y-axis representing the names of the contigs. Each gene is color-coded based on its functional classification, grouped into 12 distinct categories as indicated in the legend. The gene annotations are derived from GeneMark-ES and validated using BUSCO, ensuring high confidence in the predicted gene functions. This schematic helps visualize the distribution and functional diversity of genes across the larger contigs in the genome.The plot was created in RStudio [82] using the gggenes package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gggenes)