Figure 1From: Units of plasticity in bacterial genomes: new insight from the comparative genomics of two bacteria interacting with invertebrates, Photorhabdus and XenorhabdusStrategy for RGP identification and classification in the Photorhabdus luminescens TT01 (Pl), Photorhabdus asymbiotica ATCC43949 (Pa), Xenorhabdus nematophila ATCC19061 (Xn) and Xenorhabdus bovienii SS-2004 (Xb) genomes. A. Schematic representation of the procedure used by RGPFinder to identify synteny ruptures in the core genome (http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/agc/mage; Roche et al., unpublished data). In the example shown, the reference genome, the P. luminescens TT01 (Pl) genome, is compared with a bacterial genome set, the Entero set, composed of the P. asymbiotica ATCC43949 (Pa), X. nematophila ATCC19061 (Xn), X. bovienii SS-2004 (Xb), Yersinia pestis CO92 (Yp), Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Typhi CT18 (St), Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica SCRI1043 (Eca) and E. coli K12 (Eco) genomes. A region of genomic plasticity (RGP) sensu lato is the sum of overlapping subregions missing from at least one of the genomes in the bacterial genome set. RGPs have a minimal size of 5 kb. B. Classification of the RGPs sensu lato as a function of the genetic features identified by RGPFinder and Prophinder http://aclame.ulb.ac.be/Tools/Prophinder/.Back to article page