Separating the effects of mutation and selection in producing DNA skew in bacterial chromosomes

BMC Genomics

Table 3 Comparison of the origin of replication and the putative ML origin for each of the five linear chromosomes

Bacterial Species	Accession	Origin Signal¹	Origin Location¹	[S₁^ML, S₂^ML]²	P_o³	Distance⁴
Streptomyces avermitilis	NC_003155	oriC	0.586	0.569, 0.994	0.569	0.017
Streptomyces coelicolor	NC_003888	oriC	0.493	0.463, 0.987	0.463	0.030
Borrelia burgdorferi	NC_001318	dnaA-N	0.503	0.000, 0.503	0.503	0.000
Borrelia garinii	NC_006156	dnaA-N	0.509	0.000, 0.510	0.510	0.001
A. tumefaciens ²	NC_003305	repA	0.494	0.000, 0.493	0.493	0.001

¹Location of the annotated origin as a fraction of chromosome length starting at the NCBI site 1.
²Location of [S₁, S₂]^ML pair as a fraction of chromosome length.
³P_O^ML as inferred by which of S₁^ML or S₂^ML is closest to the annotated origin.
⁴Distance between the annotated origin and P_O^ML.

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