TABLE 5.

Comparison of nucleotide diversity among V. vulnificus isolates from clinical and environmental sources for the concatenated sequence

Clusters	No. of isolates	No. of alleles	Polymorphic sitesa		π
			nt	aa
Clinical isolates	27	22	260	27	2.1 × 10−2 ± 1.3 × 10−3
Environmental isolates	40	33	294	31	2.4 × 10−2 ± 1.6 × 10−3
Oyster, clam, mussel	13	11	208	22	2.3 × 10−2 ± 6.0 × 10−4
Seawater, sediment, other	16	14	241	20	2.4 × 10−2 ± 2.0 × 10−3
Fish (including eel)	11	8	206	17	2.0 × 10−2 ± 1.4 × 10−3
Eel only	6	4	34	2	3.0 × 10−3 ± 5.0 × 10−4

^ant, nucleotides; aa, amino acids.