Table 5.

Characteristics of housekeeping genes in 21 B. subtilis strains.

Housekeeping gene	Length (bp)	No. of alleles	No. of polymorphic sites	dN/dS	Typing efficiency (TE)	Discriminatory power (DP)
adk	654	11	78	0.4057	0.141	0.935
aroE	843	18	322	0.3909	0.056	0.983
ccpA	1005	16	269	0.4046	0.059	0.974
glpF	828	17	247	0.4122	0.069	0.978
gmk	615	15	136	0.4143	0.110	0.965
gyrA	2466	17	718	0.4098	0.024	0.978
gyrB	1917	17	532	0.4116	0.032	0.978
ilvD	1677	18	458	0.4057	0.039	0.983
mutL	1892	16	648	0.3972	0.025	0.970
pta	972	15	232	0.3973	0.065	0.965
purH	1539	17	428	0.4011	0.040	0.978
pycA	3450	19	1075	0.3990	0.018	0.991
pyrE	651	14	228	0.4015	0.061	0.961
rpoD	1122	16	218	0.4300	0.073	0.974
spo0A	804	16	187	0.4068	0.086	0.970
sucC	1158	15	219	0.4048	0.068	0.965
tpiA	762	16	114	0.3823	0.140	0.952