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. 2004 Dec;14(12):2469–2477. doi: 10.1101/gr.3024704

Table 2.

Number of genes strictly shared by prokaryotes, by simple match and by reciprocal best match (RBM), at various BLASTP cutoff expectation values

147 Prokaryotes
130 Bacteria RBM
17 Archaea RBM
E-value Simple match RBM
1.0e-3 101.5, sd = 46.9 [28-267] 18.0, sd = 2.8 [12-26] 63.5 153.6
1.0e-4 93.6, sd = 45.6 [26-256] 16.1, sd = 2.8 [11-24] 62.6 150.1
1.0e-5 87.2, sd = 44.6 [25-248] 14.8, sd = 2.6 [10-23] 61.5 144.6
1.0e-7 78.1, sd = 42.5 [20-233] 12.1, sd = 1.9 [7-17] 59.5 133.6
1.0e-10 65.8, sd = 37.0 [15-204] 10.0, sd = 1.8 [5-14] 55.3 118.6
1.0e-15 35.2, sd = 17.1 [9-147] 7.4, sd = 1.4 [4-11] 46.6 99.9
1.0e-20 12.1, sd = 3.4 [5-26] 5.5, sd = 1.1 [3-8] 38.8 83.5
1.0e-30 4.7, sd = 1.5 [2-11] 2.2, sd = 0.9 [0-4] 24.5 58.8
1.0e-50 1.5, sd = 0.9 [0-5] 9.9, sd = 0.7 [0-2] 12.6 33.5
1.0e-100 0.0 0.0 5.9 10.5

Reported are means, standard deviations (sd), and ranges of estimates (in square brackets), from the perspective of different query genomes. See Table 1 for an explanation of why there is variance in such estimates.