Figure 3. Genome atlases, DNA structures.

A DNA structural atlas was generated for each of the 6 complete genomes. DNA, RNA and gene annotations are from the published GenBank data. Each lane of the circular atlas shows a different DNA feature. From the innermost circle: size of genome (axis), percent AT (red = high AT), GC skew (blue = most G’s), inverted and direct repeats (color = repeat), position preference, stacking energy and intrinsic curvature. Orange arrows indicate changes in the skew of G and C, which frequently indicate origin and terminus of replication. Blue arrows show the location of rRNA operons, as annotated in the GenBank file. Dark red arrows highlight areas of the genome that show significantly different DNA structures than the rest of the genome. A higher resolution pdf is available as a supplemental figure. A high resolution figure can be found as supplemental Figure S1.