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Table 4 Characteristics of microdiversity loci flanked by repeats

From: Small variable segments constitute a major type of diversity of bacterial genomes at the species level

 

E. coli

E. coliB2

S. aureus

S. pyogenes

VS analysis

    

   VS flanked by repeats/all VS

10%

14%

18%

12%

   Repeats less than 30 bp/all VS with repeats

74%

66%

82%

94%

Loci analysis

    

   Total number of loci

640

370

556

250

   % of loci with VSs flanked by repeats (r-loci)/all loci

21%

22%

32%

23%

   % loci with possible deletion/r-loci

51%

66%

16%

42%

   % loci with possible deletion/all loci

21%

25%

22%

20%