Fig. 3From: Marker genes that are less conserved in their sequences are useful for predicting genome-wide similarity levels between closely related prokaryotic strainsSpearman’s correlation between each marker gene and the average AAI for distantly related prokaryotes whose AAIs are lower than 95 % and closely related prokaryotes whose AAIs are greater than 95 %. Genes are ordered by decreasing correlation coefficient for closely related prokaryotesBack to article page