Table 3.

Selected accessory genes and allelic variants of the core genome content associated with the host chicken.

Locus taga	Gene	Predicted function	BfR-CA-14430b	COGc	COGc description	Lifestyle preferenced					Accessory/variante
						Pig	Cattle	Chicken	Host generalists	Other
						n	n	n	n	n
Cj0933c	pycB	Putative pyruvate carboxylase B subunit	882.094	C	Energy production and conversion	26	56	90	255	63	V
Cj0478	rpoB	DNA-directed RNA polymerase beta chain	444.215	K	Transcription	26	56	90	255	63	V
Cj0528c	flgB	Flagellar basal-body rod protein	495.238	N	Cell motility	26	56	90	255	63	V
_01618	TraG	Conjugal transfer protein TraG	–	U	Intracellular trafficking, secretion, and vesicular transport	1	1	59	1	13	A
_01627	–	Putative protein	–	–	–	3	0	66	1	7	A
_01633	–	Putative protein	–	–	–	3	0	68	0	0	A

^aLocus tags for accessory genes based on C. jejuni reference strain NCTC13265 genome LR134498.1 (NCBI accession), while locus tags for allelic variants of the core genome refer to C. jejuni strain NCTC11168 (NCBI accession: AL111168.1).

^bPosition of core genes in the reference strain BfR-CA-14430.

^cClusters of orthologous groups (http://clovr.org/docs/clusters-of-orthologous-groups-cogs/).

^dNumber of genomes assigned to a particular lifestyle carrying the gene or allelic variant (pig, cattle, chicken, host generalists, others).

^eA indicates that a gene belongs to the accessory genome content of C. jejuni and V indicates a specific allelic variant of the core genome content.