Table 1.

Size of the Terminal Inverted Repeats (TIRs) and distribution of the telomere types and terminal protein encoding genes on the different replicons.

^aPhylogenomic and telomere sub-clades defined in Fig. 1. The different Tap-Tpg and GtpB-GtpA operons are depicted with arrows. The type I Tap-Tpg and the GtpB-GtpA systems had two open reading frames (ORFs) and the type II Tap-Tpg had three. Within a model, similar colours of the ORFs between strains indicated a sequence identity superior at 98% aa. Differences in colour of plasmid ORFs in type I Tap-Tpg indicated that the sequences are related, but more distant with a sequence identity of 80%. — symbol indicated that no Tap-Tpg system was identified.

*,**: the assessement uncertainty (circa 300 bp, i.e., a read length) did not allow to conclude to a size difference; —: TIR undetected.