Table 2.

The Most Conserved Gene Strings in Pairwise Genome Comparisons

Best local alignment, length, number of gaps/mismatches[i]
E. coli B. subtilis D. radiodurans Synechocystis sp. A. aeolicus A. pernix
B. subtilis r-superoperon,  30, 2
D. radiodurans r-superoperon,  14, 0r-superoperon,  19, 1
Synechocystis sp. r-superoperon,  27, 4r-superoperon,  35, 4r-superoperon,  13, 0
A. aeolicus r-superoperon,  9, 0r-superoperon,  10, 0r-superoperon,  10, 0r-superoperon,  10, 0
A. pernix Phosphate  transport operon,  4, 0r-superoperon,  12, 2Phosphate  transport operon,  5, 0r-superoperon,  3, 0r-superoperon,  5, 0
M. jannaschii Phosphate  transport operon,  4, 0r-superoperon,  5, 0Archaeal-type H+ATPase operon,  8, 0r-superoperon,  10, 2r-superoperon,  5, 0r-superoperon,  16, 1

[i] The data are for the information-density-based alignments.