Table 5.
Correlations by GC% subsequences taken at random from masked genomes – windows of size 500 bases
| Common name | All | Low GC | Mid GC | High GC | Z value low v mid | Z value low v high | Z value mid v high |
| Chicken | -0.014 | +0.022 | -0.053 | -0.010 | -1.93 | -0.82 | +1.11 |
| Human | +0.247 | +0.194 | +0.284 | +0.279 | +2.48 | +2.32 | -0.16 |
| Chimpanzee | +0.280 | +0.173 | +0.343 | +0.311 | +4.72 | +3.79 | -0.93 |
| Rhesus macaque | +0.306 | +0.254 | +0.352 | +0.323 | +2.77 | +1.93 | -0.84 |
| Mouse | +0.244 | +0.264 | +0.213 | +0.269 | -1.41 | +0.14 | +1.55 |
| Rat | +0.282 | +0.243 | +0.324 | +0.292 | +2.26 | +1.37 | -0.90 |
| Dog | +0.286 | +0.235 | +0.358 | +0.288 | +3.50 | +1.47 | -2.02 |
| Cow | +0.220 | +0.206 | +0.241 | +0.227 | +0.95 | +0.58 | -0.36 |
| Opossum | +0.466 | +0.444 | +0.569 | +0.394 | +4.35 | -1.56 | -5.91 |
| Puffer fish | +0.191 | +0.131 | +0.195 | +0.241 | +1.68 | +2.93 | +1.25 |
| Zebra fish | +0.013 | -0.087 | -0.010 | +0.102 | +2.00 | +4.90 | +2.90 |
| Medaka fish | +0.126 | +0.008 | +0.101 | +0.218 | +2.40 | +5.52 | +3.12 |
| Sea squirt | -0.116 | -0.169 | -0.082 | -0.104 | +2.26 | +1.71 | -0.55 |
| Fruit fly | +0.075 | +0.001 | +0.099 | +0.107 | +2.54 | +2.74 | +0.19 |
| Malaria mosquito | +0.003 | -0.032 | -0.015 | +0.051 | +0.44 | +2.15 | +1.71 |
| Nematode | +0.371 | +0.273 | +0.451 | +0.376 | +5.32 | +2.96 | -2.36 |
The sample size is 1333 for the subsamples determined by GC%. Confidence intervals may be estimated from Table 2. Z values are based on the difference in the correlation coefficients after Fisher transformation, n1 = n2 = 1333.