Figure 3
Causes of displacement in spiddos. The displacement between two spiddos (Pi and Pi') from two genome profiles can be decomposed into two elements, Δμ and Δθ. Δθ, which results from the shift in melting temperature, must have been caused mainly by point mutation and sometimes by deletion/insertion. On the other hand, Δμ, which is a measure of length, must be a result of insertion/deletion events occurring in the DNAs.