Table 2.
Nucleotide sequence similarities (%) of genes between Staphylococcus xylosus and its relatives.
| Species | Gene | |||||||
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| 16S rRNA | rpoA | sodA | tuf | rpoB | hsp60 | gmk | gap | |
| S. pseudoxylosus S04009T | 99.8 | 98.8 | 98.7 | 98.6 | 98.0 | 96.9 | 96.2 | 93.6 |
| S. saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus NCTC13634T | 99.8 | 95.3 | 94.7 | 97.1 | 93.7 | 88.4 | 89.4 | 82.7 |
| S. caeli 82BT | 99.7 | 95.2 | 93.7 | 96.6 | 91.9 | 88.3 | 89.0 | 82.8 |
| S. succinus 14BME20 | 99.4 | 94.3 | 92.5 | 94.6 | 91.0 | 86.1 | 87.7 | 81.3 |
| S. equorum subsp. equorum NCTC12414T | 99.1 | 93.1 | 93.3 | 91.6 | 92.5 | 88.6 | 87.8 | 82.6 |
| S. warneri NCTC11044T | 98.4 | 89.2 | 86.4 | 90.9 | 87.4 | 83.3 | 80.0 | 75.2 |
| S. pasteuri SP1 | 98.3 | 89.5 | 86.9 | 90.8 | 87.4 | 84.1 | 80.3 | 75.9 |
| S. epidermidis NBRC100911T | 97.9 | 90.1 | 85.5 | 91.7 | 85.4 | 80.8 | 76.5 | 77.2 |
| S. carnosus subsp. carnosus TM300 | 97.2 | 88.7 | 82.9 | 91.8 | 84.4 | 81.7 | 78.9 | 74.6 |
The genes of S. xylosus ATCC 29971T were used as the reference for nucleotide sequence comparisons.
Genes: 16S rRNA, 16S ribosomal RNA; rpoA, DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit alpha; sodA, superoxide dismutase; tuf, elongation factor Tu; rpoB, DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit beta; hsp60, heat-shock protein 60; gmk, guanylate kinase; gap, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase.