Phylogenetic and genomic diversity of human bacteremic Escherichia coli strains

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Nucleotide polymorphism found in the eight housekeeping genes used for MLST

Gene	Template size	No. of alleles	No. (%) of polymorphic sites	Ks	Ka	Ka/Ks	π
dinB	450	30	59 (13.1)	0.124	0.00197	0.0159	0.0297
icdA	516	45	52 (10.1)	0.093	0.0004	0.0043	0.0273
pabB	468	32	44 (9.4)	0.075	0.00763	0.102	0.0226
polB	450	36	65 (14.4)	0.124	0.00301	0.024	0.0287
putP	456	25	43 (9.4)	0.067	0.0015	0.0225	0.0174
trpA	561	33	87 (15.5)	0.156	0.00537	0.0345	0.0393
trpB	594	25	65 (10.9)	0.133	0.00198	0.0149	0.0299
uidA	600	27	56 (9.3)	0.074	0.003	0.0408	0.0183

Ks: No. of synonymous changes per synonymous site. Ka: No. of non-synonymous changes per non-synonymous site.
π: nucleotide diversity.

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