Figure 5

Example of a virulence locus, not yet functionally characterized, acquired via horizontal genes transfer. The Rv3375 locus is represented from Rv3374 to Rv3381c, genes colored in black are those detect as HGT (or HGT vehicle). A graphical representation of the GC content, across a 100 Kb DNA sequence, illustrates the GC% drop of the DNA comprising the indicated clusters of HGT and accompanying transposases.