Figure 1From: The genome of Rhizobium leguminosarum has recognizable core and accessory componentsThe chromosome and six plasmids of Rlv3841. The plasmids are shown at the same relative scale, and the chromosome at one-fourth of that scale. Circles from outermost to innermost indicate genes in forward and reverse orientation: all genes, membrane proteins (bright green), conserved and unconserved hypotheticals (brown conserved, pale green unconserved), phage and transposons (pink, shown for pRL7 only), and (for the chromosome only) DNA transcription/restriction/helicases (red) and transcriptional regulators (blue). Inner circles indicate deviations in G+C content (black) and G-C skew (olive/maroon). The full list of Sanger Institute standard colors for functional categories is as follows: white = pathogenicity/adaptation/chaperones (shown here in black); dark grey = energy metabolism (glycolysis, electron transport, among others); red = information transfer (transcription/translation + DNA/RNA modification); bright green = surface (inner membrane, outer membrane, secreted, surface structures [lipopolysaccharide, among others]); and dark blue = stable RNA; turquoise = degradation of large molecules; pink/purple = degradation of small molecules; yellow = central/intermediary/miscellaneous metabolism; pale green = unknown; pale blue = regulators; orange/brown = conserved hypo; dark brown = pseudogenes and partial genes (remnants); light pink = phage/insertion sequence elements; light grey = some miscellaneous information (for example, Prosite) but no function. bp, base pairs; Rlv3841, R. leguminosarum biovar viciae strain 3841.Back to article page