Table 1 Complete list of considered organisms, together with their network size (nodes and edges). Density is expressed as the ratio between the actual number of edges and the number of edges in the complete graph with the same number of nodes.

From: A novel method for assessing and measuring homophily in networks through second-order statistics

Organism

PPI network

Species

Kingdom

Phylum/class

Nodes

Edges

Density

Brucella melitensis (Bm)

Bacteria

Alphaproteobacteria

2675

15,450

0.43%

Escherichia coli (Ec)

Bacteria

Gammaproteobacteria

4020

29,748

0.37%

Haemophilus influenzae (Hi)

Bacteria

Gammaproteobacteria

1609

9202

0.71%

Helicobacter pylory J99 (Hp)

Bacteria

Epsilonproteobacteria

1264

7678

0.96%

Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv (Mt)

Bacteria

Actinobacteria

3779

24,889

0.35%

Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 (Sp)

Bacteria

Firmicutesi/Bacilli

1811

8813

0.54%

Treponema pallidum (Tp)

Bacteria

Spirochaetes

894

8157

2.04%

Vibrio cholerae (Vc)

Bacteria

Gammaproteobacteria

3153

20,844

0.42%

Pyrococcus abyssi (Pa)

Euryarchaeota

Thermococci

1564

9090

0.74%

Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc)

Fungi

Ascomycota/Saccharomycetes

6157

119,051

0.63%