FIGURE 4.

Kinetic parameters for strains carrying deletions in horizontally acquired genes. The strains carrying deletions in different horizontally acquired genes inside region A (A), region B (B), and region C (C) were grown in four culture conditions (SC, YNB, SM300, and SM60). The kinetic parameters were extracted from the growth curves for the phenotypic comparison of latency time (Lag), growth rate (Rate) and growth efficiency (Efficiency). The normalized phenotypic values are represented as a heat map where the wild type phenotype has a value equal to 1 in the color scale, and red and green represent lower and higher values of the phenotypes respect to the wild type strain, respectively. Asterisks represent a statistically significant difference between the phenotype of the strain carrying the deletion and its wild type version (t-test, p < 0.05). The heat map was constructed with the average values of three biological replicas.