Quercus robur (English Oak)

Gene density across the twelve chromosomes of the English oak.

This piece visualizes gene density — the number of protein-coding genes in each region of each chromosome — for Quercus robur across its twelve chromosomes. The oak shows mild clustering: genes gather in denser neighborhoods, an arrangement distinct from both the compact lichen genome and the uneven mouse.

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

Provenance

Ensembl Plants — Quercus robur (assembly dhQueRobu3.1, GCA_932294415.1)
https://plants.ensembl.org/Quercus_robur/Info/Index
Ensembl Plants (EMBL-EBI). Reference assembly dhQueRobu3.1 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.