Table 1.
General features of the B. melitensis genome
| Genomic features | ||
| No. of chromosomes | 2 | |
| Size of chromosome I | 2,117,144 bp | |
| Size of chromosome II | 1,177,787 bp | |
| DNA total sequence | 3,294,931 bp | |
| DNA coding sequences | 2,874,027 bp (87%) | |
| GC content | 57% | |
| Plasmids | None | |
| General statistics | ||
| Total no. of ORFs | 3,197 | |
| No. of ORFs on chromosome I | 2,059 | |
| No. of ORFs on chromosome II | 1,138 | |
| ORFs with assigned functions | 2,487 | 78% |
| ORFs without assigned function | 710 | 22% |
| ORFs without function or similarity | 228 | 7% |
| ORFs without function, with similarity | 488 | 15% |
| ORFs in ortholog clusters | 2,115 | 66% |
| ORFs in paralog clusters | 842 | 26% |
| No. of paralog clusters | 235 | |
| ORFs in chromosomal clusters | 1,583 | 49% |
| ORFs in possible fusion events | 1,127 | 35% |
| ORFs in fusion events as composites | 282 | 9% |
| ORFs in fusion events as components | 957 | 30% |