Fig. 3

Analysis of TFBS overlapping events. a The generation average number of self-overlapping events for Hb TFBSs vs. the generation average total number of TFBSs for the TF. The number of self-overlaps in a generation is shown as a fraction of the average total number of Hb sites in this generation. b The sequence logo of the consensus TFBS motif for Hb. The analogs of (a) and (b) for other TFs are shown in Additional file 2. c The number of TFBS self-overlaps for each TF in the initial regulatory sequence, as a fraction of the initial number of sites for each TF, vs. the correlation coefficients for the TF-specific analogs of the scatterplot shown in (a). d The dynamics of the population average number of overlapping events between all TFBSs (magenta) and between all but Hb sites (blue). The number of overlaps is computed as a fraction of the population average total number of sites under consideration