TABLE 3.
ORFs deleted in five Brucella spp. compared to B. melitensis 16Ma
| ORFs in the region | Species missing | Deletion coordinatesb
|
Size (bp) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginning | End | |||
| Chromosome I | ||||
| BMEI0284 | B. neotomae | 297666 | 298721 | 1,055 |
| BMEI0801 | B. canis, B. suis | 826062 | 826814 | 752 |
| BMEI0899-0900 | B. suis | 933462 | 934182 | 752 |
| BMEI0926 | B. abortus | 957471 | 957884 | 413 |
| BMEI0929 | B. abortus | 961160 | 962368 | 1,208 |
| BMEI0899-0907 | B. ovis | 932780 | 940861 | 8,081 |
| BMEI0993-1012 | B. ovis | 1035526 | 1050605 | 15,079 |
| BMEI1435 | B. canis | 1479041 | 1480017 | 976 |
| BMEI1657 | B. neotomae | 1709439 | 1709527 | 88 |
| BMEI1661-1662 | B. aboruts | 1713386 | 1714152 | 766 |
| BMEI1661-1662 | B. canis, B. suis | 1713107 | 1714020 | 913 |
| BMEI1674-1703 | B. canis, B. suis | 1723285 | 1744168 | 20,883 |
| BMEI1746-1747 | B. suis | 1787606 | 1789608 | 2,002 |
| BMEI1819 | B. neotomae | 1857540 | 1857883 | 343 |
| BMEI1873 | B. canis, B. suis | 1922893 | 1923358 | 465 |
| BMEI1896 | B. abortus | 1951794 | 1951976 | 182 |
| BMEI1919-1923 | B. abortus | 1976030 | 1977965 | 3,735 |
| Chromosome II | ||||
| BMEII0129 | B. ovis | 132016 | 132333 | 317 |
| BMEII0185-0226 | B. ovis | 197478 | 241577 | 44,099 |
| BMEII0291-0292 | B. abortus | 305255 | 306078 | 823 |
| BMEII0405 | B. ovis | 424739 | 425137 | 398 |
| BMEII0635-0636 | B. canis | 670461 | 671425 | 964 |
| BMEII0708 | B. ovis | 749458 | 749516 | 58 |
| BMEII0717 | B. abortus | 755290 | 757299 | 2,009 |
| BMEII0710-0719 | B. neotomae | 750609 | 758112 | 7,503 |
| BMEII0811-0815 | B. ovis | 844945 | 849299 | 4,354 |
| BMEII0826-0850 | B. abortus | 860773 | 885834 | 25,061 |
| BMEII0875-0878 | B. ovis | 913401 | 918223 | 4,822 |
| BMEII0986-0988 | B. neotomae | 1026501 | 1028704 | 2,203 |
| BMEII1016 | B. abortus, B. ovis | 1054752 | 1055571 | 819 |
a
As identified by microarray, PCR, and sequencing.
b
Deletion coordinates are based on the 16M genome sequence (13).