Table 1.
Marker groups, the number of marker clones they include and the strains of origin.
| Marker group names | Strains of origin | Number of marker clones | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. adolescentis LMG 10502T (Reuter, 1963) | B. animalis ssp. animalis LMG 10508T (Scardovi et al., 1970) | B. animalis ssp. lactis LMG 18314T (Masco et al., 2004; Meile et al., 1997) | B. bifidum LMG 11041T (Orla‐Jensen, 1924) | B. breve LMG 13208T (Reuter, 1963) | B. breve NCIMB 8807 (Leahy et al., 2005; Reuter, 1963) | B. longum biotype infantis LMG 8811T (Reuter, 1963; Sakata S et al., 2002) | B. longum LMG 13197T (Reuter, 1963) | B. longum NCC 2705 (Reuter, 1963; Schell et al., 2002) | B. catenulatum LMG 11043T (Scardovi and Crociani, 1974) | B. pseudolongum ssp. pseudolongum LMG 11571T (Yaeshima et al., 1992) | ||
| B. adolescentis | * | 141 | ||||||||||
| B. animalis/B. lactis | * | * | 68 | |||||||||
| B. bifidum | * | 49 | ||||||||||
| B. breve | * | * | 227 | |||||||||
| B. breve/B. infantis | * | * | * | 129 | ||||||||
| B. breve/B. infantis/B. longum | * | * | * | * | * | 204 | ||||||
| B. infantis/B. longum | * | * | * | 127 | ||||||||
| B. longum | * | * | 167 | |||||||||
| B. catenulatum | * | 1348 | ||||||||||
| B. pseudolongum | * | 103 | ||||||||||
*
The asterisk ‘’ indicates which marker groups are based on which strains.