Genes for pyrimidine salvage pathways for synthesis of dTTP and dCTP and their inferred presence in (+) or absence from (−) Borrelia burgdorferi and B. hermsii. The genes are uridine kinase (udk; EC 2.7.1.48), cytidylate kinase (cmk; EC 2.7.4.14), ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase (nrdEF; EC 1.17.4.1), thymidylate kinase (tmk; EC 2.7.4.9), thymidine kinase (tdk; EC 2.7.1.21), nucleoside diphosphate kinase (ndk; EC 2.7.4.6), and thymidylate synthase (thyX; EC 2.1.1.148). The lack of function of the B. burgdorferi thyX gene product in complementation and in vitro assays is indicated by quotation marks.