Chromosomal location of the Vibrio superintegrons. Representation of the genetic context in which each of the SIs was found relative to their phylogenetic distribution according to their IntIA genes is shown. SIs in identical locations are grouped within the same phylogenetic clade. The corresponding orthologs in V. cholerae are marked with VC(A) followed by the number designation for the ORF. The attI site and VXRs are also indicated. For clarity, only the first cassettes within each SI are shown. The integrases intI1 (Liebert et al. 1999), intI2(Sundstrom et al. 1991), intI3 (Hall et al. 1999), intI9 SXT (Hochhut et al. 2001), and intIHS (H. Sorum, K. Dommarsnes, K. Sandersen, L. Sundstrom, M. Gullberg, and A. Solberg, 2001, GenBank accession no. ) are found associated with mobile DNA elements. The integron-interases I8-2, I7-2, and I6-2 were amplified from DNA soil samples (Nield et al. 2001). The integrases (IntIA) of V. cholerae, V. mimicus, V. metschnikovii, V. parahaemolyticus, V. fischeri (Vfi), L. pelagia (Lpe), Shewanella oneidensis (Son), Shewanella putrefaciens (Spu), Xanthomonas campestris (Xca), Xanthomonas species(Xsp), Nitrosomonas europaea (Neu), P. alcaligenes (Pal), and Pseudomonas mendocina (Pm) have been previously described (Rowe-Magnus et al. 2001; Vaisvila et al. 1999, 2001). The recombinases XerC and XerD are from E. coli (Eco); (rplT and rpmL) ribosomal genes; (dark gray, striped, or black boxes) adjacent gene(s) that are not part of the SI structure.