posted on 2016-02-29, 07:41authored byCassidy L. Klima, Shaun R. Cook, Rahat Zaheer, Chad Laing, Vick P. Gannon, Yong Xu, Jay Rasmussen, Andrew Potter, Steve Hendrick, Trevor W. Alexander, Tim A. McAllister
<p>Bars represent the number of new genes as the function of the number n or strains sequentially added. The curve represents the least-squares fit for the function y = Ax<sup>B</sup> with the best fit obtained with a correlation r<sup>2</sup> = 0.875 for A = 566.17 ± 3.16, B = -0.22. The extrapolated number of new genes expected after the number of genomes increases to 100 is 123 new genes.</p>