FIG. 3.

Features of spore proteome and differentially expressed genes in relation to the entire genome of B. anthracis. Bars show the percentage of genes with transcription coaligned (i.e., in the same orientation) with the direction of replication (medium gray), the average distance from the replication origin in nucleotides (pale gray; left axis), the average percent best normalized Blastp (1) hits to B. cereus 10987 and 14579 (17, 35) (dark gray; see reference 35 for a description of the normalized Blast method). One-tailed Student's t tests were performed to establish divergence from the experimental data sets from the mean of the whole genome; asterisks mark the significant differences (P < 0.05). Note that there was no overall bias for genes in any data set to be either to the left or to the right of the origin.