Table 2.

Brucella 23S rrn polymorphisms^&.

#Brucella strains	*Nt 1085 934 (Ec)		*Nt 1564 1423 (Ec)		*Nt 2632 2610 (Ec)
	A	G	A	G	T	C
Ba b1		X		X		X
Ba b2		X		X		X
Ba b3		X		X		X
Ba b4		X		X		X
Ba b5		X		X		X
Ba b6		X		X		X
Ba b9		X		X		X
Bc	X		X		X
Bs b1	X		X		X
Bs b2	X		X		X
Bs b3	X		X		X
Bs b4	X		X		X
Bs b5		X	X			X
Bo		X	X			X
Bn		X	X			X
Bm b1		X	X			X
Bm b2		X	X			X
Bm b3		X	X			X
Dolphin		X	X			X
Porpoise		X	X			X
Seal		X	X			X

^&GenBank accession numbers for each Brucella 23S rrn sequences are listed in Methods. ^#Brucella strains are as listed in Table 1. *Nt positions as per B. abortus 23S rrnA [GenBank:AE017223, BruAb1_rrna_0005, Gene ID: 3339965]. (Ec) denotes position in Escherichia coli 23S rrn [GenBank:U00096].