Figure 1

Comparison of draft genomes of nine strains of ST772-MRSA-V to the complete reference genome of strain DAR4145. The outer ring describes the location of selected genes associated with antibiotic resistance (blue), resistance mutations (dark blue) and selected staphylococcal toxins and superantigens (red) in DAR4145. The second ring denotes mobile genetic elements, including pathogenicity islands, phages and the integrated resistance plasmid, as well as the staphylocccal cassete chromosome SSCmec-V-C2 (purple). The third ring designates the location of transposases (orange) as determined by the final annotation of DAR4145. The subsequent rings and colours in the legend represent the strains used for comparison with DAR4145.The innermost rings shows the GC content (black) and GC skew (green -, purple +). Note that redundant genes in the reference genome (dfrG, blaZ) appear as multiple copies in the comparison genomes, even if they only exist as a single copy (due to comparison based on BLAST).