Table 1. Summary of recombination events recovered from 66 recombinants in three experimental environmentsa.
Environment |
Total Events |
Avg Number of Exchange Events / strain |
Std dev |
Mean recombination event size (95% CI) |
Std Dev |
Fixed per base probability (95% CI) |
Saturating DNA | 186 | 8.45 | 4.48 | 1815 bp (802.51–2827.49) |
2423 | 5.51 (3.54–12.46) ×10−4 bp−1 |
Biofilm | 224 | 10.18 | 5.17 | 3938 bp (1986.15–5889.85) |
4671 | 2.54 (1.70–5.00) ×10−4 bp−1 |
Filter Assemblage | 255 | 11.59 | 5.04 | 4051 bp (2091.21–6010.79) |
4690 | 2.47 (1.66–4.78) ×10−4 bp−1 |
Environment |
Events >10 kbp Average per strain |
Std dev |
Total transferred DNA, % genome per strain |
Std dev |
% SNPs Transferred, average |
Std dev |
Saturating DNA | 0.14 | 0.35 | 0.72% | 0.34% | 0.60% | 0.43% |
Biofilm | 1.09 | 1.31 | 1.89% | 1.54% | 1.90% | 1.57% |
Filter Assemblage | 1.45 | 1.18 | 2.21% | 1.18% | 1.55% | 0.93% |
a. Data from S6 Table.