Table 1. Distribution of the 198 detected group II intron copies among the 18 Enterobacteriales genera/complexes.
Bacterial genus | Number ofstrains | Number ofcopies | Distinctcopies | Full-lengthdistinct copies | Distinctfragments |
Escherichia/Shigella | 35 | 122 | 67 | 40* | 27 |
Hamiltonella | 1 | 38 | 38 | 30 | 8 |
Photorabdus | 2 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
Sodalis | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
Klebsiella | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
Dickeya | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Serratia | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Yersinia | 12 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Buchnera | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Blochmania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Citrobacter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cronobacter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Edwarsiella | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Enterobacter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pectobacterium/Erwinia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Proteus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Salmonella | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wigglesworthia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TOTAL | 90 | 198 | 135 | 80 | 55 |
Two orthologous copies in the Escherichia/Shigella complex are full-length in some strains and fragmented in others; they are counted only as distinct full-length copies.