Figure 1. Genetic distances between pMCBF1 and other fully sequenced IncP-1 plasmids.

Genetic distances between each gene in pMCBF1 and the corresponding genes in the other 23 analysed plasmids. The plasmid(s) with the longest distance to pMCBF1 is marked in red and the plasmid(s) with the shortest distance is marked in blue for respective gene. Genes not present in specific plasmids are marked with '–' and genes that are at least partially present but not expressed as proteins, or proteins not annotated in GenBank are marked with '*'. Three genomic regions, A (further divided into two subregions A₁ and A₂), B and C were identified as suitable targets for further phylogenetic and signature analysis as they were present in all plasmids.