Evolution of Chlamydia trachomatis diversity occurs by widespread interstrain recombination involving hotspots

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Figure 6.
Figure 6.

Representation of the nucleotide positions of the two chromosomal hotspots. Informative sites bound the recombination breakpoints to within the shaded box for each isolate. (A) The 44-bp hotspot overlaps the rs2/ompA IGR and ompA and is within the 98-bp crossover region of clinical isolate G/CL-4. (B) The 48-bp hotspot involves the rs2 and the rs2/ompA IGR and is within the 254-bp crossover region of reference strain Da/TW-448. For A and B, the numbers +1202 and +1105, and +80 and −175 are the genomic positions relative to the start codon of ompA and rs2, respectively.

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  1. Published in Advance November 7, 2006, doi: 10.1101/gr.5674706 Genome Res. 17: 50-60

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