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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Genet. 2019 May 27;51(6):1035–1043. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0417-8

Table 1. Comparative ratio of nucleotide changes resulting from recombination relative to point mutation (r/m) in selected bacterial pathogens.

Species r/m ratio
(genome-wide)		 r/m ratio
(MLST-derived) * 		References
Streptococcus
pyogenes 		4.95 17.2 This Study and Enright et al. 15
Streptococcus
pneumoniae 		6.36 23.1 Chaguza et al. 53 and Hanage et al. 54
Staphylococcus
aureus 		0.6 0.1 Driebe et al. 55 and Enright et al. 56
Legionella
pneumophilla 		47.8 0.9 David et al. 46and Coscolla and Gonzalez-Candelas 57
Klebsiella
pneumoniae 		4.75 0.3 Diancourt et al. 58and Wyres et al. 59
*

Multi-locus Sequence Type (MLST) allele-derived r/m ratios as defined by Vos and Didelot44.