Fig. 2.

HCL analysis of Lactobacillaceae plasmids. (a) Sharing of protein families encoded by plasmids as identified by MCL across lactobacilli from various habitats. (b) HCL tree displaying clustering of the plasmids based on their protein family composition. Black bars at the edge represent plasmid genome size. Plasmids having mobilization/conjugation genes were identified based on eggNOG annotations. (c) Pie chart representing the proportion of plasmids from each habitat under clusters I, II and III of the tree shown in (b).