Figure 2.

Comparison of the C. crescentus strain CB15 ORFs to those of other completely sequenced organisms. The sequences of all proteins from each completely sequenced genome were retrieved from the National Center for Biotechnology Information and tigr databases. All C. crescentus ORFs were searched against the ORFs from all other genomes with FASTA3. The number of ORFs with the highest similarity (P < 10–5) to an ORF from a given species is shown as a proportion of the total number of ORFs in that species. The red portion of each organism's bar represents the percentage of genes that were also found to be cell cycle-regulated in C. crescentus (2). Only the organisms with the most hits, after adjustment for genome size, are presented.