Table 3.

Previously unannotated areas that exhibited high transcriptional activity

Region1	Length	Identity through blastX	Gene before	Gene after	Fold change
251313.251855	543	hypothetical protein AmarV_01231 [Anaplasma marginale str. Virginia]	AM294 pep1	AM259 thiD	0.7
336042.336685	644	n/a	AM380	AM382	23.6*
393765.394740	976	DNA-binding protein HU [Anaplasma phagocytophilum HZ]	AM434 pdxJ	AM435	1.1
459343.459783	441	hypothetical protein AmarM_02282 [Anaplasma marginale str. Mississippi]	AM504	tRNA-Asn-1	1.3
887245.887579	335	hypothetical protein PseS9_19739 [Pseudomonas sp. S9]	AM969 bioB	AM973 purL	1.5
1084944.1085520	577	hypothetical protein AmarM_05569 [Anaplasma marginale str. Mississippi]	AM1214 polA	AM1216	6.9*

¹base pair positions spanned by the newly identified regions in the St. Maries genome.

*Statistically significant fold changes are indicated with an asterisk.