Table 3.

Correlation of BDS with Other Genome Features.

	Recombination	GC	Substitution
Species	Rate	Percent	Density	Conservation
Human	0.16	0.05	0.08	−0.01
Mouse	0.08	0.10	−0.02	0.09
Dog	0.02	−0.09	−0.04	0.11
Chicken	−0.09	−0.12	−0.03	0.06
Stickleback	N/A	0.02	0.08	0.02
Fruit Fly	0.10	0.15	−0.05	0.14
Worm	N/A	0.03	−0.02	−0.11
Yeast	N/A	0.07	−0.06	0.03

NOTE.—Each value is the Spearman correlation of BDS with the specified feature across blocks of the genome. Bold indicates a significant correlation at the 0.01 level. Blocks of 1 Mb were used for all species, except for fly (100 kb), worm (10 kb), and yeast (10 kb). The raw values for each feature were used; the correlation coefficients generally increase if the data are smoothed before calculation (e.g., see fig. 3).