Comparative genomic analysis of strains of proteolytic C. botulinum and C. sporogenes strains using microarrays. Horizontal colored bars indicate array competitive hybridization. Vertical lines represent CDS present (yellow lines), absent or highly diverged (blue lines), and uncertain (gray lines). The plasmid CDS are on the left, followed immediately by the first gene in the chromosome (CBO001), and the last chromosomal CDS (CBO3650) is on the right. For strains of proteolytic C. botulinum, the toxin types are included in square brackets; two strains of C. sporogenes (NCIMB 8053 and NCIMB 10696) are also included. The position of the two prophages (Φ-Cb1 and Φ-Cb2) and the potential flagellin glycosylation island (FGI) are indicated by arrows.
