An Appraisal of the Potential for Illegitimate Recombination in Bacterial Genomes and Its Consequences: From Duplications to Genome Reduction

Table 3.

Comparative Analysis Between Different Classes


Repeats

Median length

Genes (O/E)

Elements

Repeats

RRP

RRI
CR 16 0.97 25207 25207 3279 0.13
SSR 23 0.41 878 6582 2415 2.75
TR 28 0.30 4461 30290 10092 2.26
SPIDR 29 0.03 64 32722 1142 17.8
Others
22
0.48
1849
21233
2373
1.28
  • Median length of repeats; O/E, number of repeats in coding sequences; number of elements and repeats; corrected relative recombination potential (RRP), and corrected relative recombination intensity (RRI = RRP/number of elements), taking into account spacer length.

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