Table 1.
Bacterial species analyzed in this study are numbered 1 to 40. The strains used for in silico analyses, the size of their genomes in base pairs and their relative GC content are shown. Representative species chosen for comparative analyses are labeled a through to v.
| Division | Species | Strain | Genome size | GC% | ||
| low-GC Firmicutes | Bacillus anthracis | Ames | 1 | a | 5227293 | 35.4 |
| Bacillus halodurans | C-125 | 2 | 4202353 | 43.6 | ||
| Bacillus subtilis | 168 | 3 | 4214810 | 43.5 | ||
| Clostridium perfringens | 13 | 4 | 3031430 | 28.5 | ||
| Clostridium tetani | E88 | 5 | b | 2799250 | 28.7 | |
| Enterococcus faecalis | V583 | 6 | c | 3218031 | 37.0 | |
| Lactobacillus johnsonii | NCC533 | 7 | 1992676 | 34.6 | ||
| Listeria innocua | CLIP11262 | 8 | 3011208 | 37.3 | ||
| Listeria monocytogenes | EGD-e | 9 | d | 2944528 | 37.9 | |
| Staphylococcus aureus | MW2 | 10 | 2820462 | 32.7 | ||
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | TIGR4 | 11 | e | 2160837 | 39.6 | |
| Streptococcus pyogenes | SF370 | 12 | 1852442 | 38.4 | ||
| Mollicutes | Mycoplasma genitalium | G-37 | 13 | f | 580074 | 31.6 |
| Mycoplasma pneumoniae | M129 | 14 | g | 816394 | 39.9 | |
| Ureaplasma urealyticum | serovar 3 | 15 | 751719 | 25.4 | ||
| high-GC Firmicutes | Corynebacterium diphtheriae | NCTC13129 | 16 | 2488635 | 53.5 | |
| Mycobacterium leprae | TN | 17 | 3268203 | 57.7 | ||
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis | H37Rv | 18 | h | 4411529 | 65.5 | |
| Chlamydiae | Chlamydia pneumoniae | AR39 | 19 | i | 1229853 | 40.5 |
| Chlamydia trachomatis | serovar D | 20 | 1042519 | 41.2 | ||
| Spirochaetae | Treponema pallidum | Nichols | 21 | j | 1138012 | 52.7 |
| α-Proteobacteria | Brucella melitensis | 16 M | 22 | k | 3294931 | 57.1 |
| Rickettsia conorii | Malish 7 | 23 | 1268755 | 32.4 | ||
| Rickettsia prowazekii | Madrid E | 24 | l | 1111523 | 28.9 | |
| β-Proteobacteria | Bordetella bronchiseptica | RB50 | 25 | m | 5339179 | 68.1 |
| Bordetella parapertussis | 12822 | 26 | 4773551 | 68.1 | ||
| Bordetella pertussis | Tohama I | 27 | 4086189 | 67.7 | ||
| Neisseria meningitidis | MC58 | 28 | n | 2272351 | 51.4 | |
| γ-Proteobacteria | Buchnera | APS | 29 | 640681 | 26.2 | |
| Escherichia coli K12 | MG1655 | 30 | o | 4639221 | 49.8 | |
| Haemophilus influenzae | KW20 Rd | 31 | p | 1830138 | 38.0 | |
| Pasteurella multocida | PM70 | 32 | 2257487 | 40.3 | ||
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | PA01 | 33 | q | 6264403 | 66.4 | |
| Pseudomonas putida | KT2440 | 34 | 6181863 | 61.5 | ||
| Salmonella typhi | CT-18 | 35 | r | 4809037 | 52.0 | |
| Salmonella typhimurium LT2 | SGSC141 | 36 | s | 4857432 | 52.2 | |
| Vibrio cholerae | N16961 | 37 | 4033464 | 47.2 | ||
| Yersinia pestis | CO92 | 38 | t | 4653728 | 47.5 | |
| ε-Proteobacteria | Campylobacter jejuni | NCTC11168 | 39 | u | 1641481 | 30.5 |
| Helicobacter pylori | 26695 | 40 | v | 1667867 | 38.8 |