Figure 7

Proportion of STs in the largest eBURST group for populations of species in the MLST databases. All isolates in the MLST databases for a number of species were obtained from MLST [14] and pubMLST [15] websites and the proportion of STs in the largest eBURST group was calculated. eBURST population snapshots are shown for four selected species with differing proportions of STs in their largest eBURST group. In area A the population is so diverse that clonal complexes may not be apparent (see text), in area B eBURST performance should be good, whereas in area C the performance is likely to be poor due to high levels of recombination.