Conserved genes in a path from commensalism to pathogenicity: comparative phylogenetic profiles of Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62A and ATCC12228

Table 1 Comparison of the CDSs of S. epidermidis ATCC 12228 and S. epidermidis RP62A

	S. epidermidis ATCC12228^a	S. epidermidis RP62A^a
Total CDS number	2419	2494
CDSs categorized by sequence variations
All homologs	2094	2103
Total orthologs	2053	2053
Orthologs with identical DNA sequences	859	859
Orthologs with SNPs and the same length^b	931	931
Orthologs with insertions/deletions	263	263
Paralogs	41	50
Unique compared to the other S. epidermidis^c	325	391
Unique compared to all staphylococcal	288	315

^a Genomic data of S. epidermidis ATCC12228 (accession no. AE015934) and S. epidermidis RP62A (accession no. CP000029) are according to GeneBank.
^b These CDSs were used in analyzing the variation of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between two S. epidermidis genome.
^c These CDSs were specific to each other.

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