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Table 5 Correlations by GC% subsequences taken at random from masked genomes – windows of size 500 bases

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

-0.014

+0.022

-0.053

-0.010

-1.93

-0.82

+1.11

Human

+0.247

+0.194

+0.284

+0.279

+2.48

+2.32

-0.16

Chimpanzee

+0.280

+0.173

+0.343

+0.311

+4.72

+3.79

-0.93

Rhesus macaque

+0.306

+0.254

+0.352

+0.323

+2.77

+1.93

-0.84

Mouse

+0.244

+0.264

+0.213

+0.269

-1.41

+0.14

+1.55

Rat

+0.282

+0.243

+0.324

+0.292

+2.26

+1.37

-0.90

Dog

+0.286

+0.235

+0.358

+0.288

+3.50

+1.47

-2.02

Cow

+0.220

+0.206

+0.241

+0.227

+0.95

+0.58

-0.36

Opossum

+0.466

+0.444

+0.569

+0.394

+4.35

-1.56

-5.91

Puffer fish

+0.191

+0.131

+0.195

+0.241

+1.68

+2.93

+1.25

Zebra fish

+0.013

-0.087

-0.010

+0.102

+2.00

+4.90

+2.90

Medaka fish

+0.126

+0.008

+0.101

+0.218

+2.40

+5.52

+3.12

Sea squirt

-0.116

-0.169

-0.082

-0.104

+2.26

+1.71

-0.55

Fruit fly

+0.075

+0.001

+0.099

+0.107

+2.54

+2.74

+0.19

Malaria mosquito

+0.003

-0.032

-0.015

+0.051

+0.44

+2.15

+1.71

Nematode

+0.371

+0.273

+0.451

+0.376

+5.32

+2.96

-2.36

  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.