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Table 4 Correlation of (G - C) versus (A - T) in subsequences taken at random from masked genomes

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

Scientific name

Common name

Correlation from 500 base window

Correlation from 500 kb window

Difference (Col 3 - Col 4)

Gallus gallus

Chicken

-0.014

-0.964

+0.950

Homo sapiens

Human

+0.247

-0.875

+1.122

Pan troglodytes

Chimpanzee

+0.280

-0.871

+1.151

Macaca mulatta

Rhesus macaque

+0.306

-0.868

+1.174

Mus musculus

Mouse

+0.244

-0.826

+1.070

Rattus norvegicus

Rat

+0.282

-0.818

+1.100

Canis familiaris

Dog

+0.286

-0.874

+1.160

Bos taurus

Cow

+0.220

-0.864

+1.083

Monodelphis domestica

Opossum

+0.466

-0.316

+0.782

Tetraodon nigroviridis

Puffer fish

+0.191

+0.049

+0.142

Danio rerio

Zebra fish

+0.013

-0.606

+0.619

Oryzias latipes

Medaka fish

+0.126

-0.181

+0.307

Ciona intestinalis

Sea squirt

-0.116

-0.251

+0.135

Drosophila melanogaster

Fruit fly

+0.075

-0.056

+0.131

Anopheles gambiae

Malaria mosquito

+0.003

-0.452

+0.455

Caenorhabditis elegans

Nematode

+0.371

+0.571

-0.200

  1. In each case the sample size is 4000. The figures in the difference column have a statistically significant difference from zero, (Z test on difference between corrrelation coefficients after Fisher transformation; Z ≥ 5.8 (value for fruit fly); for example Z = 71 for human; n1 = n2 = 4000). The difference column is more consistent than in Table 3.