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. 2008 Oct 3;105(41):15950–15955. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806851105

Table 2.

ELKs in sequenced prokaryotic genomes

Domain Phylum Order Total Genomes Genomes with
0 ELKs >15 ELKs
Bacteria 577 194 25
Acidobacteria 2 0 2
Acidobacteriales 1 0 1
Solibacterales 1 0 1
Actinobacteria 47 0 9
Actinomycetales 44 0 9
Aquificae 1 0 0
Bacteroidetes 12 7 0
Chlamydiae 11 0 0
Chlorobi 5 4 0
Chloroflexi 7 3 3
Choroflexales 3 0 2
Herpetosiphonales 4 3 1
Cyanobacteria 29 13 4
Nostocales 2 0 2
Oscillatoriales 1 0 1
unclassified 1 0 1
Deinococcus-Thermus 4 0 0
Firmicutes 130 7 0
Fusobacteria 1 1 0
Planctomycetes 1 0 1
Proteobacteria (α) 78 50 0
Proteobacteria (β) 49 11 0
Proteobacteria (γ) 144 67 0
Proteobacteria (δ) 21 6 6
Myxococcales 7 0 6
Proteobacteria (ε) 19 16 0
Spirochaetes 9 5 0
Thermotogae 6 6 0
unclassified 1 1 0
Archaea 49 28 0

Orders have been included only when there are several genomes sequenced in the phylum and at least 1 of them encodes more than 15 ELKs.