Figure 3.

Comparison of the MLST schemes in predicting strain composition using MG-MLST. (a) Ribotype (RT) group composition predicted by STRUCTURE based on the Aahrus four gene set (fba, lac, recA, and zno). (b) RT group composition predicted by STRUCTURE based on the Belfast MLST₄ scheme (aroE, guaA, tly, and camp2). (c) RT group composition predicted by STRUCTURE based on the combined eight gene set (Aarhus–Belfast) (fba, lac, recA, zno, aroE, guaA, tly, and camp2). (d) RT group composition based on 16S ribotype data. Pearson’s correlations are shown in Table S3.