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From: Persistence drives gene clustering in bacterial genomes

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Gene clustering in specimen bacteria. The X-axis represents the persistence index, i.e. the number of orthologs found for a given gene among the 169 genomes. The blue curve shows the number of genes with identical persistence index, which is indicated by the Y-axis on the right. Genes with similar persistence are assigned into groups and tested for their distribution using Kuiper's test. The statistic for each group is shown as a vertical line. The two horizontal lines show the critical values given by Kuiper's test. The red one at y = 2.001 (resp. green one at y = 1.747) shows the critical value at the significant level of alpha = 0.01 (resp. alpha = 0.05). Both the persistent genes and the rare genes are significantly clustered along the chromosome, whereas the genes in between are not. Note that groups are not equally spaced along the X-axis to homogenize the number of genes in each group (from 100 to 200 genes). The gene persistence range for groups on the left side is 10%: e.g. the first group includes genes present in 90% to all of the bacteria; the 2nd group includes genes present in between 85% to 95% of the bacteria, and so on. Gene groups on the right side are assigned to groups with much narrower ranges, due to the fact that there is more rare genes than persistent genes in most bacteria.

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