Figure 2

Genome alignment of C. difficile BI1, C. difficile 2007855, C. difficile 630, and C. difficile 5.3. A comparison of the four genomes as visualized by the Mauve software is shown. The four genomes are free from large-scale rearrangement, and exhibit high levels of sequence identity throughout their genomes, with a number of differentially conserved regions. Regions conserved among all genomes are shown in the color mauve, regions shared among subsets of the genomes are in different colors, regions unique to any particular genome are white.