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Table 6 Correlations by GC% subsequences taken at random from masked genomes – windows of size 500 kb

From: Genomic DNA from animals shows contrasting strand bias in large and small subsequences

Common name

All

Low GC

Mid GC

High GC

Z value low v mid

Z value low v high

Z value mid v high

Chicken

-0.964

-0.958

-0.969

-0.966

-3.96

-2.93

+1.03

Human

-0.875

-0.844

-0.887

-0.886

-4.47

-4.35

+0.11

Chimpanzee

-0.871

-0.840

-0.884

-0.878

-4.44

-3.79

+0.65

Rhesus macaque

-0.868

-0.840

-0.872

-0.885

-3.15

-4.57

-1.42

Mouse

-0.826

-0.765

-0.862

-0.835

-7.55

-5.08

+2.46

Rat

-0.818

-0.795

-0.841

-0.815

-3.58

-1.45

+2.13

Dog

-0.874

-0.863

-0.887

-0.869

-2.65

-0.61

+2.04

Cow

-0.864

-0.874

-0.876

-0.840

-0.22

+3.31

+3.53

Opossum

-0.316

-0.138

-0.430

-0.342

-8.26

-5.60

+2.66

Puffer fish

+0.049

-0.043

+0.077

+0.107

+3.09

+3.87

+0.78

Zebra fish

-0.606

-0.685

-0.644

-0.524

+1.91

+6.62

+4.71

Medaka fish

-0.181

-0.250

-0.131

-0.165

+3.20

+2.31

-0.89

Sea squirt

-0.251

-0.460

-0.274

-0.019

+5.58

+12.34

+6.76

Fruit fly

-0.056

-0.002

+0.010

-0.156

+0.30

-3.99

-4.30

Malaria mosquito

-0.452

-0.453

-0.457

-0.453

-0.12

+0.01

+0.13

Nematode

+0.571

+0.650

+0.523

+0.562

-5.04

-3.62

+1.42

  1. The sample size is 1333 for the subsamples determined by GC%. Confidence intervals may be estimated from Table 2. Z values are based on the difference in the correlation coefficients after Fisher transformation, n1 = n2 = 1333.