The periodic transference of nucleotide strings in bacterial and archaeal
complete genomes is investigated by using the metric representation and the
recurrence plot method. The generated periodic correlation structures exhibit
four kinds of fundamental transferring characteristics: a single increasing
period, several increasing periods, an increasing quasi-period and almost
noincreasing period. The mechanism of the periodic transference is further
analyzed by determining all long periodic nucleotide strings in the bacterial
and archaeal complete genomes and is explained as follows: both the repetition
of basic periodic nucleotide strings and the transference of non-periodic
nucleotide strings would form the periodic correlation structures with
approximately the same increasing periods.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, 2 table
