Fig. 1From: Satellites in the prokaryote worldBox-plots showing the distribution of satellite densities (Satellites/Mb) in the genomes of different prokaryotic groups. The numbers below the name indicate the number of species in each group. Data for Methanosarcina are not included. The miscellanea category in Archaea includes several groups of species with a small number of satellites (0–3 Satellites/Mb); in Bacteria we have merged all groups with a small number of species in the reference NCBI list. Median values in all cases are in the range 0–3 satellites/Mb. Detailed data for all species are available in Additional file 1Back to article page