TABLE 4.

Genetic diversity of 26 L. lactis strains at seven loci

Locus	Length (bp)			% GC content	No. of polymorphic sites	dN/dS ratio	No. of unique alleles
	Gene	Amplicon	Sequence analyzed
atpA	1,503	1,141	393	41.52	32	0.008	10
bcaT	1,047	493	320	39.47	45	0.029	8
pepN	1,023	482	491	33.53	52	0.255	8
pepX	2,269	602	401	39.35	85	0.076	9
rpoA	939	721	531	40.19	13	0.092	12
pheS	2,533	618	361	41.51	36	0.010	9
16S rRNA	1,548	1,465	531	49.30	2	–a	5

^a–, not determined.