TABLE 4.
Allelic diversity and recombination in housekeeping genes of C. jejuni
| Gene | No. of alleles | No. of polymorphic sites | Mean % (range):
|
KS/KA ratio | H ratioa | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KS | KA | |||||
| asd | 14 | 25 | 3.8 ± 2.6 (0–10.3) | 0.4 ± 0.3 (0–0.9) | 12.1 | 0.40 |
| atpA | 9 | 11 | 0.86 ± 0.73 (0–3.8) | 0.01 ± 0.05 (0–0.2) | 71.5 | |
| ddlA | 12 | 39 | 8.9 ± 5.3 (0–20.5) | 0.8 ± 0.6 (0–2.0) | 11.6 | 0.42 |
| eftS (tsf) | 15 | 28 | 7.1 ± 5.2 (0–19.5) | 0.2 ± 0.2 (0–1.0) | 32.3 | 0.36 |
| fumC | 15 | 39 | 6.4 ± 5.4 (0–19.3) | 0.14 ± 0.14 (0–0.4) | 45.7 | 0.48 |
| nuoH | 11 | 23 | 3.18 ± 2.53 (0–9.35) | 0.6 ± 0.4 (0–1.3) | 5.8 | |
| yphC | 13 | 23 | 1.9 ± 2.3 (0–10.0) | 0.1 ± 0.2 (0–0.7) | 16.0 | 0.47 |
a
Geometric mean of 10 independent runs of the homoplasy test. The standard error was <10% for all values. H ratios for atpA and nuoH could not be determined because there were not enough informative sites.