Figure 5

Distribution of core sporulation genes conserved in the Epulopiscium and C. lentocellum genomes by regulon. Venn diagrams represent the conservation of genes in the four sporulation-specific sigma factor regulons. Circle size corresponds to the number genes on the core list for B. subtilis (outermost circle), C. lentocellum (middle circle) and Epulopiscium (inner circle). The numbers below each diagram indicate the total number of genes from B. subtilis in each regulon. Some genes were counted more than once if they are members of multiple regulons as indicated in Table 2