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Table 4 Proposed Whole Genome Lineage Nomenclature

From: A gene-by-gene population genomics platform: de novo assembly, annotation and genealogical analysis of 108 representative Neisseria meningitidis genomes

WGS nomenclature

MLST nomenclature

Lineage 11 ^

ST-11 cc

Lineage 3 ^

ST-41/44 cc

Lineage 23 ^

ST-23 cc

Lineage 1

ST-1 cc

Lineage 2

ST-269 cc

Lineage 4

ST-4 cc

Lineage 5

ST-32 cc

Lineage 6

ST-60 cc

Lineage 7

ST-750 cc

Lineage 8

ST-8 cc

Lineage 9

ST-92 cc

Lineage 10

ST-5 cc

Lineage 12

ST-53 cc

Lineage 13

ST-213 cc

Lineage 14

ST-174 cc

Lineage 15

ST-1157 cc

Lineage 16

ST-116 cc

Lineage 17

ST-175 cc

Lineage 18

ST-18 cc

Lineage 19

ST-198 cc

Lineage 20

ST-103 cc

Lineage 21

ST-212 cc

Lineage 22

ST-22 cc

Lineage 24

ST-106 cc

Lineage 25

ST-162 cc

Lineage 26

ST-167 cc

Lineage 27

ST-178 cc

Lineage 28

ST-181 cc

Lineage 29

ST-226 cc

Lineage 30

ST-231 cc

Lineage 31

ST-254 cc

Lineage 32

ST-282 cc

Lineage 33

ST-292 cc

Lineage 34

ST-334 cc

Lineage 35

ST-35 cc

Lineage 36

ST-364 cc

Lineage 37

ST-37 cc

Lineage 38

ST-376 cc

Lineage 39

ST-461 cc

Lineage 40

ST-549 cc

Lineage 41

ST-865 cc

Lineage 42

ST-1117 cc

Lineage 43

ST-1136 cc

Lineage 44

ST-4821 cc

Lineage 45

ST-4240/6688 cc

  1. ^ Distinct sub-lineages present; proposal to use decimal based (i.e. 11.1, 11.2, etc.) system for defined sub-lineages.
  2. To simplify and differentiate between MLST typing and whole genome based typing we propose a lineage nomenclature that is associated with defined clonal complex (cc). The data includes all PubMLST Neisseria database isolates.