Figure 3.

Representation of the tropici symbiotic plasmid. Circles from innermost to outermost indicate: GC skew, GC content, location of ISs differentially present in the three strains analyzed (green, only CIAT 899; blue, only in PRF 81; orange, only in CFN 299; red, CIAT899 and PRF 81), genes in reverse orientation, genes in forward orientation, and locations of some of the genes or functions mentioned in the text. Double-headed arrows indicate the position of IS-rich regions and junctions of two regions with different GC content representing two putative ancestral plasmids that gave rise to this pSym.