TABLE 1.

Similarities among gyrB genes of various Bacillus species

Bacterium	Strain	% Similarity to gyrB of:
		B. cereus	B. thurin-giensis	B. an-thracis	B. my-coides
B. cereus	JCM 2152T		96.8b	98.8b	95.5b
B. thuringiensis	IAM 12077T	90.2a		96.5b	96.8b
B. anthracis	Pasteur #2H	90.7a	87.4a		95.3b
B. mycoides	ATCC 6462T	88.8a	91.0a	86.6a

^aPercentage of similarity in gyrB nucleic acid sequences. 

^bPercentage of similarity in gyrB amino acid sequences.