Figure 1

Alignment of L . casei genomes. Five closed and 12 new draft genomes were aligned using progressive Mauve. Three boxed areas outline large highly collinear regions where the order of Locally Collinear Blocks is highly conserved among all 17 strains. The boxes are a fixed length, so that all region size can be compared, and maps were adjusted to the left to reflect length differences. Vertical red lines indicate contig boundaries, and unplaced contigs were sorted to the right end of each map.