Lichen Fungus (Lichina pygmaea)

Gene density across the seven chromosomes of a lichen-forming fungus.

This piece visualizes gene density — the number of protein-coding genes in each region of each chromosome — for Lichina pygmaea, a lichen-forming fungus with a compact genome of seven chromosomes. Genes are distributed relatively evenly along the chromosomes — a simple, efficient arrangement.

Part of a three-piece series rendering gene density across three organisms: a mouse, an oak, and a lichen-forming fungus.

Provenance

Ensembl — Lichina pygmaea (assembly glLicPygm2.1, GCA_963422465.1)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genome/GCA_963422465.1/
Ensembl (EMBL-EBI). Reference assembly glLicPygm2.1 from the Wellcome Sanger Institute / Darwin Tree of Life Project.

Materials

Giclée fine art print on archival paper. Each print ships with a signed data-provenance insert card.

Included

• One giclée print (unframed, shipped in a protective tube)
• Signed data-provenance insert card
• Care instructions

Studio

Genetics of Design is a studio that translates scientific and geographic datasets into printed work. Each piece begins with a public record — road networks, genomes, star catalogs, species data — and is published alongside the provenance of the data it came from.