Figure 1

Between-species whole-genome DNA alignments. Plots of maximally unique matching subsequences (MUMs) between genomes as identified by the MUMmer program. (a) V. cholerae chrI forward strand versus E. coli forward strand. (b) E. coli forward versus V. cholerae chrI reverse. (c) V. cholerae chrI versus E. coli, forward and reverse overlaid. (d) S. pneumoniae forward versus S. pyogenes forward and reverse overlaid. (e) M. tuberculosis forward versus M. leprae forward and reverse overlaid. A point (x, y) indicates a DNA sequence that occurs once within each genome, at location x in one genome and at location y in the other genome. The matching sequences may occur on either the forward or the reverse strand; in either case, the locations indicate the 5' end of the sequences. The point (0,0) corresponds to the origin of replication for each genome.