Fig. 4 in Silk Spinning Behavior Varies from Species-Specific to Individualistic in Embioptera: Do Environmental Correlates Account for this Diversity?

Fig. 4. Computation of similarity between two sequences. For two individuals of Aposthonia borneensis (Hagen) (Oligotomidae), the first 500 steps of their spin sequences are shown (A and B).The red bar underlining a short sequence indicates one 15-step subsequence that is highly similar between these two individuals. For all possible pairs of 15 step subsequences, the heatmap displays the sequence similarity (C), with red areas indicating regions of the spin sequence that are highly similar.The profiles on the margins of the heat map indicate the marginal maxima—that is, for each 15-step subsequence, what is the similarity to the most similar subsequence in the other individual. Portions of the sequence with similarities about 12 were deemed sufficiently similar to the other sequence (vertical or horizontal lines), amounting to about 5% of individual 1's sequence and 10% of individual 2's sequence.