Fig. 5.

Analyses of Genetic Background of mcr-1.1. The position of the mobilized colistin-resistance gene (mcr-1.1) was assessed in three different ways (Fig. 5a). First, we defined the contig on which the mcr-1.1 gene was located. Second, we annotated the contig with the mcr-1.1 gene using the PlasmidFinder, if it was >10 kb. Third, we mapped the samples’ reads to the reference plasmids (see main text for details). The alluvial plot is illustrating plasmids containing the mcr-1.1 gene (right column) and the isolates’ origins (middle column) (Fig. 5b). The sequence clusters (SC) are illustrated in the left column.