TABLE 3.

Intra- and interspecies diversity of mapA and ceuE gene and protein sequences^a

Parameter and species	p distance
	mapA	ceuE
Gene sequence diversity
C. jejuni	0.014	0.018
C. coli	0.023	0.005
C. jejuni/C. coli	0.232	0.13
Protein sequence diversity
C. jejuni	0.009	0.015
C. coli	0.020	0.009
C. jejuni/C. coli	0.232	0.089

^aPutative recombinant sequences and alleles encoding truncated peptide sequences were excluded.