Skip to main content
. 2017 Mar 10;7:44331. doi: 10.1038/srep44331

Table 1. L. delbrueckii core genomes.

  Core genomes
10 strains ssp. lactis and ssp. bulgaricus 5 strains ssp. lactis 5 strains ssp. bulgaricus
Core genome length (bp) 1,169,615 1,377,054 1,532,043
Number of core contigs 322 308 210
Polymorphic sites 34,720 (3.00%) 22,703 (1.65%) 15,390 (1.00%)
Recombination events* 559 419 350
r/m* 0.537 (35%) 0.679 (40%) 0.563 (36%)
Tract size (bp) (median; mean)* 203; 291 141; 204 114; 189

r/m, ratio of the number of polymorphic sites resulting from recombination and the number of polymorphic sites resulting from point mutations, percentages indicate the fraction of observed diversity that can be attributed to recombination; tract size, length of recombined sequences; *estimated using Clonal Frame.