Table 1.

Attributes and correlation properties of analysed Eukarya genomes

Eukarya	Accession number	Category	Length [bp]	Correlation properties
				Start [N,R,P] [bp]	1st max. [bp]	Transition [bp]	2nd max. [F,R] [bp]	Fine-struc. [C,F]
Arabidopsis thaliana Chr. I top + bottom	AE00517 & AE005173	P	28,890,626	P	60/600	171	580	C
Arabidopsis thaliana Chr. I top	AE00517	P	14,221,746	P	60/550	160	550	C
Arabidopsis thaliana Chr. I bottom	AE005173	P	14,668,880	P	60/650	185	620	C
Arabidopsis thaliana Chr. II	AE002093	P	19,646,744	P	60/680	180	660	C
Arabidopsis thaliana Chr. IV	NC001268	P	17,549,956	P	60/650	160	680	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. I	NC001133(1)	Y	230,203	P	500	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. II	NC001133(1)	Y	813,139	P	435	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. III	NC001133(2)	Y	316,613	P	450	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. IV	NC001133(2)	Y	1,531,929	P	410	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. V	NC001133(2)	Y	576,870	P	640	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. VI	NC001133(1)	Y	270,148	P	640	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. VII	NC001133(1)	Y	1,090,936	P	540	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. VIII	NC001133(2)	Y	562,638	P	620	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. IX	NC001133(1)	Y	439,885	P	460	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. X	NC001133(1)	Y	745,440	P	460	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. XI	NC001133(1)	Y	666,445	P	580	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. XII	NC001133(1)	Y	1,078,173	P	560	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. XIII	NC001133(1)	Y	924,430	P	560	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. XIV	NC001133(1)	Y	784,330	P	450	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. XV	NC001133(1)	Y	1,091,284	P	550	–	–	C
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chr. XVI	NC001133(1)	Y	875,709	P	420	–	–	C
Schizosaccharomyces pombe Chr. I	V-011213	Y	5,602,103	P	900	1.2*^4	R1.0*^5	C
Schizosaccharomyces pombe Chr. II	V-011213	Y	4,430,733	P	850	1.4*^4	R1.0*^5	C
Schizosaccharomyces pombe Chr. III	V-011213	Y	2,467,649	P	610	2.0*^4	R1.0*^5	C
Drosophila melanogaster Chr. 2L	2L-1011210	I	2,265,1956	P	40/3,100	–	–	C
Drosophila melanogaster Chr. 2R	2R-2-011210	I	14,631,223	P	40/3,800	–	–	C
Drosophila melanogaster Chr. 3R	3R-1-011210	I	28,460,979	P	40/3,400	–	–	C
Homo sapiens sapiens Chr. XI	NT009151	Pr	19,322,668	P	200	1.0*^5	R3.5*^5	N
Homo sapiens sapiens Chr. XIV	NT026437	Pr	28,334,988	P	200	1.7*^4	F1.4*^5	N
Homo sapiens sapiens Chr. XV	NT010321	Pr	9,197,381	P	200	2.0*^4	1.0*^5	N
Homo sapiens sapiens Chr. XX	NT011362	Pr	24,982,240	P	200	1.2*^4	1.3*^5	N
Homo sapiens sapiens Chr. XXI	Hattori51	Pr	33820172	P	200	2.0*^4	1.3*^5	N
Homo sapiens sapiens Chr. XXII	TIGR, WLC010213	Pr	33,705,278	P	200	1.2*^4	2.0*^4	N

To simulate the whole chromosome I of Arabidopsis thaliana the sequences of the top and bottom arm that are separated by an unsequenced centromeric region were concatenated. Accession numbers of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are annotated with the version in brackets. The sequences of Schizosaccharomyces pombe are the preliminary from 10/12/2001. The sequences of Drosophila melanogaster are the three largest available sequences with “Gold Standard Quality” downloaded on 10/12/2001 from http://www.fruitfly.org/. A human sequence of chromosome XXI was used (Hattori et al. 2000) with no apparent accession number. The sequence of chromosome XXII was downloaded from The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR) website at http://www.tigr.org/. Taxonomic categories are plant (P), yeast (Y), insect (I), and primate (Pr). Properties of correlation are classified with N for negative (crossing the random regime with a value of 0.5 in bp), R for random, and P for positive correlation coefficients at window sizes of a few base pairs. The transition to the second maximum can be a minimum (M). Second maxima are dividable into those with a fine-structure not attributable to statistics (F) and those not clearly separable from fluctuations based on the cut-off length of sequences (R). The fine-structure is categorized by codon usage (C) and nucleosomal binding (N)