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SOURCES — xist-smart-scaffold-academic (Track 2, academic)

Compiled 2026-10-10. Every raster image used in this page's academic graphics, with its source, license and attribution. PDB coordinates are public domain per wwPDB policy (https://www.wwpdb.org/about/pdb-data-use); ribbons were rendered by the Hypothesis Critic team from those coordinates. No fabricated imagery.

Images kept

File	What it shows	Source / authors	DOI / PMCID	Figure	License	Attribution line
`xist-rna-dna-fish-cc0.jpg`	Confocal images from a combined RNA-DNA FISH experiment for Xist in female mouse fibroblast cells: Xist RNA transcripts (red) coating the inactive X (Xi), Xist DNA loci (yellow), nucleus (blue)	Reinius B, Shi C, et al. "Female-biased expression of long non-coding RNAs in domains that escape X-inactivation in mouse." BMC Genomics. 2010;11:614	doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-614 · PMID: 21047393 · PMCID: PMC3091755	Fig 5 (via Wikimedia Commons file "RNA DNA FISH open access BMC Genomics.jpg")	CC0	"Reinius B, Shi C (2010), BMC Genomics, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons"
`barr-body-nih-pd.png`	Diagram of a diploid nucleus with chromosome and Barr body (the condensed inactive X)	Courtesy of NIAID, Ryan Kissinger (NIH BioArt)	— (no paper)	—	Public domain	"Public domain (NIAID / Ryan Kissinger), via Wikimedia Commons"

PDB structures rendered (public domain coordinates)

PDB	Structure	Deposition authors	Paper	Rendered for
`1AOI`	Complex between nucleosome core particle (H3, H4, H2A, H2B) and 146 bp DNA fragment	Luger K, Maeder AW, Richmond RK, Sargent DF, Richmond TJ	Luger K et al. "Crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle at 2.8 Å resolution." Nature. 1997;389:251–260	molecular-cascade panel 1

Rejected candidates (not used)

Candidate	Why rejected
(none additional)	The Xist page had a genuinely thin open-imagery field: the FISH micrograph (CC0) and the public-domain Barr body diagram were the only suitable open images found. The nucleosome ribbon (PDB 1AOI, public-domain coordinates) and a clearly-labeled adaptor-pathway schematic fill the molecular panel; no micrograph was fabricated.