Table 1. Conservation of peptides amongst Shewanella isolates from the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River.

	Closest Relative			Furthest Relative
Isolate	Strain	CLUSTAL distance	Conserved Peptides/Proteins	Strain	CLUSTAL distance	Conserved Peptides/Proteins
HRCR-1	S. oneidensis MR-1	0.009	2302/457	S. loihica PV-4	0.087	344/72
HRCR-2	S. putrefaciens CN32	0.008	1268/276	S. loihica PV-4	0.079	310/66
HRCR-4	S. oneidensis MR-1	0.003	2504/534	S. loihica PV-4	0.088	378/81
HRCR-5	S. putrefaciens CN32	0.010	1407/301	S. loihica PV-4	0.080	357/78

Distances were calculated from aligned partial 16s rDNA sequences using the CLUSTAL W algorithm. See ref. [30] & [31].