Evolutionary patchwork of an insecticidal toxin shared between plant-associated pseudomonads and the insect pathogens Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus

Table 1 GC content of fitD and mcf genes

Strain	Gene	Position	Strand	Length (bp)	GC content (%)	GC content genome (%)
Pseudomons protegens
Pf-5	fitD	3350746..3359757	+	9012	65.2	64.0
CHA0	fitD	3362990..3371995	+	9006	65.1	63.4
	fitA	3357171..3359312	+	2142	65.4
	fitB	3359309..3360697	+	1389	65.7
	fitC	3360700..3362859	+	2160	66.9
Pseudomonas chlororaphis
3084	fitD	4176228..4185206	+	8979	66.1	62.9
Photorhabdus luminescens
TTO1	mcf1	4832190..4841195	-	8994	56.2	43.9
	mcf2	3670273..3677427	+	7155	52.0
	Plu3125^a	3664486..3666606	+	2121	54.8
	Plu3126 ^a	3666606..3667994	+	1389	55.8
	Plu3127 ^a	3667994..3670153	+	2160	57.3
Photorhabdus asymbiotica
ATCC 43949	mcf1	3962994..3971975	+	5982	54.4	42.2
Xenorhabdus nematophila
ATCC 19061	mcf	2205090..2212682	+	7593	50.7	45.3
	mcf2	1917776..1924951	+	7176	50.2
Xenorhabdus bovienii
SS-2004	mcf	2380592..2388193	-	7602	50.6	45.0

^aEncode predicted transporters and are homologous to fitA, fitB and fitC respectively

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