TABLE 3.

RFLP S values of seven B. hermsii isolates compared to the type strain HS1

Genetic locus	S value fora:
	DAH	FRO	MAN	CON	HAN	YOR	REN
vsp family	1.0 (27)	0.96 (27)	0.96 (25)	0.67 (24)	0.56 (16)	0.55 (24)	0.55 (24)
vlp family
α subfamily	1.0 (15)	1.0 (15)	0.73 (15)	0.71 (13)	0.40 (8)	0.71 (16)	0.71 (16)
β subfamily	1.0 (36)	0.94 (32)	0.83 (34)	0.89 (38)	0.57 (27)	0.54 (26)	0.54 (26)
γ subfamily	1.0 (11)	0.91 (12)	0.57 (10)	0.91 (12)	0.30 (9)	0.07 (17)	0.07 (17)
δ subfamily	1.0 (23)	1.0 (23)	0.86 (21)	0.65 (11)	0.61 (13)	0.62 (16)	0.62 (16)
Total	1.0 (112)	0.96 (109)	0.83 (105)	0.77 (98)	0.54 (73)	0.53 (99)	0.53 (99)
Flagellin gene	1.0 (23)	1.0 (23)	1.0 (23)	1.0 (23)	0.93 (22)	0.93 (22)	0.93 (22)

^aData are the proportions of restriction fragments shared by the indicated isolate and HS1. Values range from 1.0 (identical to HS1) to 0 (totally dissimilar to HS1). See Materials and Methods for details. Parenthetical data are the total numbers of different restriction fragments from each isolate. The numbers of fragments for HS1 were the same as those for the DAH isolate.