Fig. 1

ARDRA patterns of reference and representative poultry Lactobacillus strains obtained by digestion of 16S rDNA amplicons with Mse I; restriction fragments were separated in 3 % agarose gel. Panel a - profiles of L. salivarius group strains, L. plantarum, L. farciminis and L. delbruckii group strains; panel b - profiles of L. delbruckii group strains and L. oris strains; panel c - profiles of L. reuteri group strains;  wm – DNA weight marker; bold letters A-T – reference strains as shown in Table 1; A2 - L. salivarius, B - L. saerimneri, C - L. agilis, D – L. plantarum, E – L. farciminis, F – L. acidophilus, G – L. gasseri, H – L. johnsonii, I – L. crispatus, J – L. amylovorus, K – L. kitasatonis, M – L. casei, N – L. rhamnosus, O – L. zeae, P - L. paracasei, R1 and R2 – L. ingluviei, S – L. mucosae, T1 and T2 – L. reuteri, U – L. oris; G, Ch, T – strains isolated from geese, chickens and turkeys, respectively