Table 4.

Comparison of the location of partition genes and the putative ML origin for each of the 28 secondary circular chromosomes

Bacterial Species	Accession	parA/repA1	POML2	Distance3
Brucella abortus	NC_006933	0.998	0.999	0.001
Brucella melitensis, 16M	NC_003318	0.079	0.079	0.000
Brucella melitensis, Abortus 2308	NC_007624	0.998	0.999	0.001
Brucella suis	NC_004311	0.998	0.999	0.001
Burkholderia sp. 383, Chr 2	NC_007511	0.002	0.000	0.002
Burkholderia sp. 383, Chr 3	NC_007509	0.996	0.001	0.005
Burkholderia cenocepacia, Chr 2	NC_008061	0.879	0.878	0.001
Burkholderia cenocepacia, Chr 3	NC_008062	0.315	0.320	0.005
Burkholderia mallei	NC_006349	0.997	0.001	0.004
Burkholderia pseudomallei, 1710b	NC_007435	0.576	0.578	0.002
Burkholderia pseudomallei, K96243	NC_006351	0.998	0.001	0.003
Burkholderia thailandensis	NC_007650	0.998	0.000	0.002
Burkholderia xenovorans, Chr 2	NC_007952	0.000	0.006	0.006
Burkholderia xenovorans, Chr 3	NC_007953	0.981	0.979	0.002
Photobacterium profundum	NC_006371	0.999	0.000	0.001
Ralstonia eutropha	NC_007348	0.775	0.778	0.003
Ralstonia metallidurans	NC_007974	0.943	0.946	0.003
Ralstonia solanacearum	NC_003296	0.001	0.002	0.001
Rhodobacter sphaeroides	NC_007494	0.996	0.513	0.483
Silicibacter sp. TM1040	NC_008043	0.517	0.519	0.002
Silicibacter pomeroyi	NC_006569	0.678	0.668	0.010
S. meliloti, pSymA	NC_003037	0.999	0.991	0.008
S. meliloti, pSymB	NC_003078	0.034	0.060	0.026
Vibrio cholerae	NC_002506	0.999	0.005	0.006
Vibrio fischeri	NC_006841	0.999	0.002	0.003
Vibrio parahaemolyticus	NC_004605	0.999	0.000	0.001
Vibrio vulnificus CMCP6	NC_004460	0.689	0.692	0.003
Vibrio vulnificus, YJ016	NC_005140	0.999	0.002	0.003

¹parA or repA location (see text), as a fraction of chromosome length starting at the NCBI site 1.

²P_O^ML as inferred from rRNA sites or σ_GC > 0 (see text).

³Distance between parA/repA location and P_O^ML.