Figure 1: Syntenic dotplots showing varying degrees of genomic inversion events in bacterial genome comparisons, known as ‘X-alignments’. Dot plots are generated using online comparative genomics suite CoGe SynMap utility [10]. Each dot represents a matching gene pair. Colored blocks represent synteny blocks. Left: comparison between Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans strain 2CP-1 on x-axis vs. strain 2CP-1C on y-axis [11]. Right: Prochlorococcus marinus strain MIT9211 on x-axis vs. strain MIT9313 on y-axis [12].