Differential efficiency in exogenous DNA acquisition among closely related Salmonella strains: implications in bacterial speciation

Table 2 Sequence divergence of the five genes between S. typhimurium LT2 and the recipient strains

Recipient strain	flgL	treA	hisA	ompC	purG	Average	SD
S. typhimurium LT2	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
S. typhimurium 14028 s	0	0.0006	0	0	0	0.0001	0.0003
S. paratyphi B SPB7	0.0094	0.0093	0.0136	0.0088	0.0103	0.0103	0.0019
S. agona SARB1	0.0105	0.0146	0.0163	0.0202	0.0085	0.014	0.0047
S. dublin TYT3627	0.0084	0.0088	0.0081	0.0088	0.0082	0.0085	0.0003
S. enteritidis LK5	0.0126	0.0088	0.0122	0.0202	0.0082	0.0124	0.0048
S. paratyphi C RKS4594	0.0063	0.0128	0.0108	0.0202	0.0113	0.0123	0.0051
S. paratyphi A ATCC9150	0.0073	0.0123	0.0136	0.0053	0.0116	0.01	0.0035
S. typhi Ty2	0.0073	0.0169	0.0136	0.0053	0.0111	0.0108	0.0047
S. arizonae SARC5	0.0692	0.0736	0.0637	0.0325	0.0598	0.0598	0.0161
S. bongori SARC12	0.1143	0.0362	0.061	0.0554	0.0769	0.0688	0.0293

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