Figure 5
From: Persistence drives gene clustering in bacterial genomes
The percentage of genomes having persistent genes clustered over the time course of our simulation. The Y-axis shows the percentage of cells in which persistent genes are significantly not uniformly distributed (Kuiper's test, alpha = 0.05). a) Insertion is allowed at any position in a population of 5 000 cells. The red curve is under the hypothesis that deletion of persistent genes significantly affect the cell's multiplication, and the blue curve is the control supposing that persistent genes are indistinguishable from the other genes; b) Comparison of different population sizes. The green curve shows the simulation with a population size of 500 cells, and the orange curve is for a population of 50 000 cells. The blue curve is the control; c) Insertion is not allowed within clusters of persistent genes. In panel a and b, areas calculated by integral beneath the green, red and orange curves are 6290, 14033 and 19892, respectively for population sizes of 500, 5 000 and 50 000.