Table 3 The mean PAM distance separating two orthologs and the average size (number of genes) of synteny blocks are dependent on the taxonomic distance separating the two genomes that have been compared at the level of their genetic context
From: Assessing the evolutionary rate of positional orthologous genes in prokaryotes using synteny data
Hierarchy rank | Species 1 | Species 2 | Mean PAM distance | Synteny block | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(E. coli1) Taxonomy | Species name | Taxonomy | Proteome size | Mean size | Longest size | ||
Family | Enterobacteriaceae | S. enterica | Enterobacteriaceae | 4318 | 15.07 | 3.36 | 20 |
Order | Enterobacteriales | V. cholerae | Vibrionales | 3835 | 61.89 | 2.92 | 10 |
Enterobacteriales | P. aeruginosa | Pseudomonadales | 5567 | 79.64 | 2.94 | 12 | |
Class | Gamma proteobacteria | M. loti | Alpha proteobacteria | 6746 | 103.05 | 2.47 | 9 |
Phylum | Proteobacteria | B. subtilis | Firmicutes | 4112 | 104.07 | 2.41 | 9 |
Proteobacteria | M. tuberculosis | Actinobacteria | 3995 | 109.58 | 2.31 | 6 | |
Proteobacteria | C. tepidum | Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi | 2252 | 105.03 | 2.78 | 9 | |
Proteobacteria | R. baltica | Planctomycetes | 7325 | 112.53 | 2.16 | 8 | |
Domain | Bacteria | M. acetivorans | Archaea (Euryarchaeota) | 4540 | 122.64 | 2.13 | 3 |
Bacteria | S. solfataricus | Archaea (Crenarchaeota) | 2977 | 132.63 | 2.05 | 3 | |