Table 2.

Percentage of occurrence of different phases of overlap in Prokaryotes. Each line refers to a different type of overlap (codirectional, convergent, and divergent). The last column shows the total number of occurences for each overlap type.

	(123:231)	(123:312)	(123:123)	abs. number
codirectional	64	36	0	12737
	(123:132)	(123:321)	(123:213)	abs. number
convergent	32	21	47	1890
divergent	16	25	59	331