FIG 3.
Pairwise nucleotide comparison of the ColV-like virulence plasmids pS88 and pMS8345B. Protein-coding genes involved in replication, plasmid transfer, maintenance, and virulence are represented by colored arrows (as indicated in the key). The results of a BLASTn comparison between the two plasmids are shown with gray or yellow for (reverse-complement) shading between 68% and 100% nucleotide identities. Yellow indicates a match. Several large insertion or deletion events are evident between both plasmids as is an inversion in MS8345 that reversed the order of the sitABCD and aerobactin genes.