Fig. 5.

Distribution of the repeated elements. (A)The median distance between adjacent repeated elements versus the size of repeated elements. (B) Number of the repeated elements with the size of 30 bp in each kb of the multiple genome sequence alignments. (C) Comparison of the number of repeated elements (30 bp in length) in the window of 10,000 bp with and without recombination in viral genomes. For clarity, the natural logarithm of the median distance between adjacent repeated elements (A) and the number of repeated elements (C) was used. The Y-axis in the right side (A & C) indicates the actual numbers corresponding to those in the Y-axis on the left side. “***”,p-value < 0.001.