TABLE 1 .
Nucleotide diversity of fimA and 3-locus MLST in S. enterica and E. coli
| Gene category |
S. entericaa |
E. colia |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subsp. I (55) |
Subsp. I–VI (66) |
Entire species (53) |
B2 group (38) |
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| π (%) | dS | dN | π (%) | dS | dN | π (%) | dS | dN | π (%) | dS | dN | |
| 3-locus housekeeping genesb | 1.4 ± 0.02 | 0.055 | 0.001 | 3.2 ± 0.08 | 0.132 | 0.004 | 1.7 ± 0.05 | 0.075 | 0.001 | 0.5 ± 0.02 | 0.019 | 0.001 |
| fimA | 1.4 ± 0.04 | 0.035 | 0.007 | 3.9 ± 0.12 | 0.125 | 0.015 | 7.9 ± 0.14 | 0.222 | 0.041 | 7.8 ± 0.14 | 0.215 | 0.041 |
a
Numbers in parentheses represent numbers of analyzed sequences.
b
Data represent the results determined for concatenated sequences of internal (450- to 500-bp) fragments of the housekeeping genes from S. enterica (thrA, aroC, and hisD) and E. coli (adk, fumC, and gyrB) MLST schemes.