Table 2.

Genomic features of lactic acid bacteria. CDS:Coding Sequences, N50: the shortest sequence length at 50% of the genome, L50: the smallest number of contigs whose length sum gives N50

	L. buchneri Egmn17	L. brevis Atlas17	L. plantarum Gmze16	L. namurensis Ozge01
Genome size (bp)	2,655,387	2,575,327	2,798,818	2,792,218
Predicted CDS	2451	2687	3162	2632
Number of genes	2519	2467	2890	2600
G + C content (%)	40.5	46.4	45.0	51.2
Contig N50 (bp)	75,706	62,075	70,400	125,563
Contig L50	12	14	12	7
No. of contigs	99	151	121	92
tRNA	60	56	58	62
rRNA	8	4	7	6
tmRNA	-	1	1	1