Table 1. Bacterial pathogens under scrutiny.
| Short name | Chromosome length (bp) | Regulon size | Full name | GenBank accession no. complete chromosome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| full | -prox | ||||
| Plant pathogens | |||||
| Dd3937 | 4,922,776 | 19 | 15 | Dickeya dadantii 3937 | CP002038.1 |
| DE586 | 4,818,394 | 15 | 10 | Dickeya zeae Ech586 | CP001836.1 |
| Dsp703 | 4,679,450 | 13 | 9 | Dickeya paradisiaca sp703 | CP001654.1 |
| DE1591 | 4,813,854 | 18 | 12 | Dickeya chrysanthemi Ech1591 | CP001655.1 |
| PaSCRI193 | 5,064,019 | 20 | 13 | Pectobacterium atrosepticum SCRI193 | BX950851.1 |
| PcPC1 | 4,862,913 | 20 | 15 | Pectobacterium carotovorum PC1 | CP001657.1 |
| PwWPP163 | 5,063,892 | 20 | 16 | Pectobacterium wasabiae WPP163 | CP001790.1 |
| Human pathogen | |||||
| Ye8081 | 4,615,899 | 11 | 9 | Yersinia enterocolitica 8081 | AM286415.1 |
Short (column 1) and long (column 5) names of the eight genera/species/strains used in this study are shown, as well as their chromosome length (column 2) and GenBank accession number (column 6). Columns 3 and 4 show their number of known target genes in the KdgR regulon, before (full) or after (-prox) replacing neighbour genes by a single site at the mean position of the original loci. Neighbour genes are defined as closer than two times the average gene-to-gene distance of the studied genome, taken here to be 1,000 bp. Further analysis is systematically carried out on the -prox dataset (the set of pathogenicity islands) to avoid artificially boosting statistical significance.