Sequencing of five poultry strains elucidates phylogenetic relationships and divergence in virulence genes in Morganella morganii

Table 3 Genomic features of the five sequenced poultry strains

	PA17/10312	PA18/15564	PA18/16407	PA18/25921	PA19/9695
Number of contigs	78	59	47	548	667
Total length (bp)	4,085,866	3,675,879	3,702,167	4,066,432	3,988,823
N50 (bp)	244,109	403,330	989,625	403,126	49,931
GC content	50.2%	51.2%	51.2%	51.0%	51.6%
Genes	3840	3452	3490	3812	3756
Coding genes	3784	3393	3431	3718	3671
Genome completeness	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Contamination score (%)^a	0.00	0.54	0.00	1.92	2.75
Strain heterogeneity^b	0.00	0.00	0.00	37.50	50.00

^a,b For a detailed description of these metrics, see the CheckM paper [16]
^b The strain heterogeneity (SH) index indicates the proportion of the contamination that appears to be from the same or similar strains and is a number between 0 and 100

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