TABLE 4.
Intra-generic (bold) and inter-generic similarity of seven genera of the family Brucellaceae, measured by genomic ANI values from WGS data (bottom left matrix) and nucleotide identity from concatenated MLSA data (upper right matrix).
| Genus (n species) | Brucella (n = 12) | Daeguia (n = 1) | Falsochrobactrum (n = 2) | Mycoplana (n = 2) | Ochrobactrum (n = 19) | Paenochrobactrum (n = 3) | Pseudochrobactrum (n = 4) |
| Brucella | 99.3 (98–100) | 86.0 (85.8–86.1) | 82.0 (79.9–84.1) | 77.7 (77.4–77.9) | 86.9 (82.2–88.9) | 76.8 (76.7–77.2) | 78.4 (78.0–78.8) |
| 99.1 (97.5–99.9) | |||||||
| Daeguia | 79.4 (79.4–79.5) | NA | 81.3 (80.3–82.3) | 78.4 (78.3–78.5) | 85.2 (81.3–86.8) | 78.9 (78.5–79.4) | 79.6 (79.0–80.1) |
| NA | |||||||
| Falsochrobactrum | 78.5 (76.7–80.4) | 77.6 (76.5–78.7) | 79.4 (79.4–79.4) | 74.7 (71.8–78.2) | 81.8 (76.2–84.8) | 76.8 (75.1–78.7) | 77.1 (75.8–78.0) |
| 77.9 (77.9–77.9) | |||||||
| Mycoplana | 75.5 (75.4–75.6) | 75.3 (75.3–75.3) | 74.8 (74.2–75.4) | 93.5 (93.5–93.5) | 77.4 (73.7–81.2) | 70.7 (70.2–71.0) | 72.6 (71.3–73.2) |
| 84.8 (84.8–84.8) | |||||||
| Ochrobactrum | 80.9 (77.4–82.9) | 78.2 (76.7–79.3) | 77.9 (74.8–80.5) | 75.1 (74.4–76.4) | 88.0 (78.2–99.7) | 77.3 (74.3–78.6) | 78.6 (75.4–80.2) |
| 82.2 (75.4–98.5) | |||||||
| Paenochrobactrum | 76.0 (75.8–76.2) | 76.1 (76.0–76.2) | 75.8 (75.7–76.0) | 74.3 (74.2–74.3) | 75.8 (74.8–76.4) | 92.3 (90.4–95.6) | 79.6 (79.2–80.5) |
| 88.4 (86.3–92.3) | |||||||
| Pseudochrobactrum | 75.9 (75.6–76.2) | 75.9 (75.6–76.2) | 75.6 (75.3–76.0) | 74.3 (74.2–74.4) | 75.9 (74.7–76.9) | 77.1 (76.8–77.5) | 93.7 (92.1–97.5) |
| 88.7 (85.8–97.1) |
Values are expressed as the average for each group (with range). NA, not available where genus represented by a single species.