Table 4.
Diversity at the Clostridium perfringens multilocus sequence typing (MLST) loci.
| Genes | Sequences (bp) | No. of alleles | %Of alleles1 | No. (%) of polymorphic loci2 | dN/dS3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ddla | 265 | 20 | 14.81 | 19 (7.17) | 0.0570 |
| dut | 259 | 14 | 10.37 | 26 (10.04) | 0.0908 |
| glpk | 446 | 25 | 18.52 | 20 (4.48) | 0.0753 |
| gmk | 321 | 7 | 0.74 | 16 (4.98) | 0.0715 |
| plc | 327 | 23 | 17.04 | 24 (7.34) | 0.0791 |
| recA | 298 | 14 | 10.37 | 17 (5.70) | 0.0086 |
| sod | 265 | 23 | 17.04 | 29 (10.95) | 0.0051 |
| tpiA | 268 | 9 | 6.67 | 11 (4.10) | 0 |
1
Percentage of alleles to all isolated strains (n = 85).
2
Percentage of polymorphic loci to all alleles.
3
Calculated in the START2 software package (http://pubmlst.org/software/analysis/start2/) by the method of Nei-Gojobori.