Table 1 Intraspecies genome signature comparisons. When more than 2 genome sequence are available for the plasmids from the database, the lowest and highest δ* is depicted (δ* _min and δ* _max respectively).

1

Bacillus anthracis

3

0.012006

0.06936

2

Bacillus cereus

3

1.578633

4.59874

3

Bacillus licheniformis

2

0.05647

4

Bacteroides fragilis

2

1.859383

5

Buchnera aphidicola

3

16.95546

59.25254

6

Campylobacter jejuni

2

3.636911

7

Escherichia coli

4

0.596158

7.086455

8

Helicobacter pylori

2

7.324047

9

Neisseria meningitidis

2

3.94554

10

Pseudomonas syringae

2

16.17344

11

Salmonella enterica

2

1.560395

12

Shigella flexneri

2

0.365415

13

Staphylococcus aureus

6

0.761036

1.613145

14

Staphylococcus epidermidis

2

2.965408

15

Streptococcus agalactiae

2

3.441733

16

Streptococcus pneumoniae

2

2.326183

17

Streptococcus pyogenes

5

0.448649

2.864896

18

Streptococcus thermophilus

2

0.872791

19

Thermus thermophilus

2

1.734364

20

Xylella fastidiosa

2

6.746043

21

Yersinia pestis

3

0.335064

2.809856