Shifting patterns of natural variation in the nuclear genome of caenorhabditis elegans

Table 1 Overview of genome wide differences between N2 and CB4856 or CB4858

Polymorphism	CB4856	CB4856 × 10^-4 SNPs per base	CB4858	CB4858 × 10^-4 SNPs per base
Base
Substitutions
single	4926	10.6	36568	5.11
sequential	476	1.02	564	0.08
Sub total	5402	11.6	37132	5.18
Insertions	2024	4.34	2668	0.37
single
sequential	1197	2.57	0	0.00
Ins total	3221	6.91	2668	0.37
Deletions	2618	5.62	2393	0.33
single
sequential	2009	4.31	0	0.00
Del total	4627	9.93	2393	0.33
Inversions
2 bp	98	0.21	53	0.01
3+bp	12	0.03	23	0.00
Total Inv	110	0.24	76	0.01
Total	13360	28.7	42269	5.90

The total number of bases assayed in CB4856 was 4658922 (4.6465% of the C. elegans reference genome). The numbers of SNPs observed in CB4858 was based on the assay of 77% of the C. elegans reference genome (Hiller et al., 2008).

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