Figure 2.
The positions of loci assigned to each of the eight generated multilevel genome typing levels for Salmonella Typhimurium
MGT: Multilevel genome typing; STM: Salmonella Typhimurium.
Positions are for the STM reference genome LT2 (GenBank number: NC_003197.2). The minimum spacing of two loci in a given level was 20 kb for MGT2 and MGT3, 8 Kb for MGT4, 4 kb for MGT5 and 0 Kb for MGT6 and 7. These distances also include loci from the previous levels. For example, all loci in MGT4 are greater than 8 Kb away from loci in MGT2, 3 and 4. The number of loci included in MGT2 to MGT9 are as follows: MGT2 18; MGT3 77; MGT4 156; MGT5 241; MGT6 682; MGT7 1,044; MGT8 2,956 (Salmonella core), MGT9 5,293 (STM core).
