Table 3.

Intergenic Regions with Genome-Like GC Content^a

Intergenic Region	Local GC minb	CACACA	TTAAAA
RL1-RL2	No	No	Yes (2)
RL2 (ex 2)-UL1	Yes	Yes (2)	No
UL4-UL5	No	No	No
UL8-UL9	No	No	No
UL12-UL13	No	No	No
UL14-UL15 (ex 1)	No	No	No
UL16-UL17	No	No	No
UL17-UL15 (ex 2)	No	No	No
UL18-UL19	No	No	No
UL19-UL20	No	Yes	No
UL28-UL29	No	Yes	No
UL29-UL30	Yes	No	No
UL33-UL34	No	No	No
UL34-UL35	No	Yes	No
UL37-UL38	No	No	No
UL39-UL40	No	No	No
UL41-UL42	Yes	No	No
UL43-UL44	Yes	Yes	No
UL46-UL47	No	No	No
UL47-UL48	Yes	Yes	No
UL48-UL49	No	No	No
UL51-UL52	No	No	No
UL53-UL54	No	No	No
UL56-RL2	Yes	No	No
RS1-US1	Yes	No	No
US2-US3	No	No	Yes
US8-US9	No	Yes	Yes
US11-US12	No	No	No
US12-RS1	Yes	No	No
Total	8	8	4
Total per 10,000 bp	4.1	4.1	2.0

^aIntergenic regions with genome-like GC content are those with GC contents in the range of 62.1%-81.5%.

^bLocal GC minima are those identified by visual inspection of the GC content trace as defined in a sliding 120 bp window as shown in Fig. (4).