Table 2.

Intraspecific genome comparisons

Taxonomy	Comparisons within and between serovars/biovars	Rearrangement types
Proteobacteria α	Brucella suis biovars 1, 2 and 4 - biovar 3	Chromosome number
Proteobacteria γ	Salmonella typhimurium and other serovars	Stable
	Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi	Inversions and translocations
	Salmonella pullorum and Salmonella gallinarum	Inversions and translocations
	Escherichia coli - Shigella boydii	Stable
	Escherichia coli - Shigella sonnei	Stable
	Escherichia coli - Shigella dysenteriae	Rearranged
	Escherichia coli - Shigella flexneri	Rearranged
Actinobacteria	Streptomyces ambofaciens	Duplications, deletions and translocations
Bacilli	Lactococcus lactis lactis	Stable
	Lactococcus lactis cremoris	Inversions
	Streptococcus thermophilis	Stable
Spirochetes	Leptospira interrogans - two serovars	Inversions