Peak profiles of 16S-23S heteroduplexes and homoduplex determined by DHPLC. (A) B. anthracis BA1018; (B) B. anthracis Sterne homoduplex. Two strains of B. anthracis had peak profiles similar to that of strain BA1018. All of the other strains tested had peak profiles similar to that of the Sterne strain. The arrows indicate the differences between the two peak profiles from all the B. anthracis strains tested. Examples of the DHPLC peak profiles of the 16S-23S ISR heteroduplexes of B. thuringiensis ATCC 19269 (C), B. thuringiensis ATCC 19266 (D), B. cereus ATCC 21770 (E), B. cereus ATCC 33019 (F), B. cereus ATCC 14579 (G), and B. thuringiensis ATCC 33679 (H) are shown. All strains of B. cereus and B. thuringiensis had peak profiles different from that of B. anthracis.