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Table 3 Organisation of che genes in the top 10 most frequently found operons

From: Deciphering chemotaxis pathways using cross species comparisons

 

By operons

By species

Rank

Operon

Number of operons

Relative frequency (%)

Operon

Number of species

Relative frequency (%)

1

Y

708

49.9

Y

170

82.5

2

W

128

9.0

ABRWY

105

51.0

3

ABRWY

121

8.5

W

83

40.3

4

R

85

6.0

R

80

38.8

5

ABWY

63

4.4

ABWY

60

29.1

6

AWY

30

2.1

AWY

28

13.6

7

WY

29

2.0

WY

25

12.1

8

BW

27

1.9

BW

25

12.1

9

AY

26

1.8

ABRY

25

12.1

10

ABRY

25

1.8

AW

24

11.7

  1. A total of 1419 operons were detected in the 206 genomes. 1242 (88%) of these occur in the top 10 operon types.