Table 2.

Correlations among counts of LSSRs of different types

k	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1	0.49	0.35	0.17	0.02	−0.02	−0.03	−0.05	−0.03	−0.02	−0.02
2	*	0.29	0.04	−0.04	−0.08	−0.04	−0.02	−0.05	−0.05	−0.01
3		*	0.16	0.08	0.04	0.00	0.00	−0.01	0.07	0.09
4			*	0.26	0.11	0.03	0.08	0.09	0.27	0.23
5				*	0.71	0.27	0.59	0.60	0.61	0.53
6					*	0.39	0.75	0.76	0.68	0.52
7						*	0.74	0.35	0.26	0.19
8							*	0.73	0.61	0.48
9								*	0.73	0.56
10									*	0.82

Pearson correlation coefficients among counts of LSSRs of different types (differentiated by the length of the repeated oligonucleotide, k) in 378 prokaryotic chromosomes are displayed. High values indicate that the LSSRs of the two types tend to occur in the same genomes, whereas values close to zero suggest that the two LSSR types are unrelated. Values ≥0.30 are shown in bold type.