[Complexity analysis of a genome. II. Extensive homology zones in bacteriophage lambda]

The suggested earlier complexity approach for detecting structural regularities in primary structures of nucleic acids is illustrated by using lambda phage as an example. Among the most interesting regularities detected in the lambda phage genome are the following: (a) the presence of "extended homology zones" i.e. fragments in which block transpositions of duplicative type predominate explicitly; (b) the abundance of palindrome-hairpin structures and duplications in the origins and termini of many genes; (c) the hierarchy in the repeats and inversions organization.