Table 3.
The list of species representing the major hubs in the HGT network and their connectivity ranking in the three trees considered
|
Organism |
Average ortholog similarity |
Gene content |
Genome conservation |
STRING |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pirellula sp. | 2 | 1 | 1 | Absent |
| Bradyrhizobium japonicum | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Erwinia carotovora | 5 | 2 | 4 | Absent |
| Clostridium acetobutylicum | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 |
| Chromobacterium violaceum
|
6
|
10
|
9
|
Absent
|
-
(HGT vine width threshold is set to 10; see Methods). Inner nodes of the tree are ignored during the ranking. Absent signifies absence of the organism in the input data.
