Fig. 3: Limited functional biases in the recently recombined genes. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Limited functional biases in the recently recombined genes.

From: Microbial species and intraspecies units exist and are maintained by ecological cohesiveness coupled to high homologous recombination

Fig. 3

The graphs show gene annotations summarized by high-level COG categories as a fraction of total genes in the genome (y-axis) for RBM genes divided into two categories (x-axis): genes with ≥99.8% sequence identity (recombinant), and genes with <99.8% sequence identity (non-recombinant). The asterisks represent functional categories found to be significantly different by one-sided Chi-square test (p value < 0.05) with Benjamini/Hochberg multiple test correction, likely reflecting genes undergoing more frequent recombination than the average gene in the genome, favored by selection for the corresponding functions. Nonetheless, note that, overall, all functional categories are subject to recombination (left columns) and, more or less, with the same frequency—or distribution—as they are found in the genome (right columns) for both species.

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