The pathogenic intestinal spirochaete Brachyspira pilosicoli forms a diverse recombinant species demonstrating some local clustering of related strains and potential for zoonotic spread

Table 1 Number of alleles, genetic diversity, GC content, and variable sites at the seven loci tested

Loci	No. of alleles	h value	Sequence length	No. of variable sites	Variable sites%	% G + C content	Ln Likelihood	No. of amino acids
adh	50	0.913	347	114	32.9	41.5	-1833.41711	24
alp	90	0.989	648	294	45.4	34.4	-5659.75171	67
est	95	0.989	498	419	84.1	34.2	-8054.48965	68
gdh	64	0.983	412	56	13.6	34.3	-1839.28238	16
glp	77	0.988	686	170	24.8	32.8	-3783.80503	38
pgm	112	0.986	743	377	50.7	33.1	-5930.31493	72
thi	90	0.992	745	630	84.6	39.2	-11915.65273	71
Mean h value		0.977

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