Scheme information - Ribosomal MLST

This is a universal typing scheme that works across the bacterial domain. It indexes variation of the 53 genes encoding the bacterial ribosome protein subunits (rps genes), as a means of integrating microbial genealogy and typing.

Fields

The primary key field indexes unique combinations of alleles at the member loci.

• rST Primary key
• genus
• species
• subspecies
• lineage
• sublineage
• other_designation
• notes

Loci

This scheme consists of alleles from 53 loci.