TABLE 5.

The length and GC contents of ehrlichial citrate synthase gene

Organism	Citrate synthase gene		%GC contents of other gene registered in GenBank (gene, accession number)
	Length (bp)a	GC content (%)
HGE agent	1,236	38.3	42.4 (heat shock protein gene, AF172163)
E. equi	1,236	38.3	42.1 (heat shock protein gene, AF173988)
E. phagocytophila	1,236	38.2	42.1 (heat shock protein gene, U96735)
A. marginale	1,254	50.5	48.8 (heat shock protein gene, AF165812)
A. centrale	1,254	51.0	50.4 (glutathione synthetase gene, M80425)
E. canis	1,251	32.1	33.2 (heat shock protein gene, U96731)
E. chaffeensis	1,251	31.3	33.2 (heat shock protein gene, L10917)
E. muris	1,251	31.2	34.0 (heat shock protein gene, AF210459)
Ehrlichia detected from I. ovatus	1,228 b	30.5	33.7 (heat shock protein gene, AB032712)
C. ruminantium	1,248	32.6	33.0 (heat shock protein gene, U13638)
E. risticii	1,197	43.7	41.8 (heat shock protein gene, AF206299)
E. sennetsu	1,197	43.9	42.4 (heat shock protein gene, AF060197)
N. helminthoeca	1,212	44.2	50.5 (16S rRNA gene, U12457)
R. prowazekii	1,311	33.6	33.8 (heat shock protein gene, Y15783)
B. henselae	1,296	38.6	44.3 (heat shock protein gene, U78514)

^aFrom ATG start codon to stop codon. 

^bPartial sequence; sequencing of the 3′ end has not been completed.