Table 1.
Comparison of selected sequenced Burkholderia and Wolbachia species.
| Organism (strain) |
B. rhizoxinica HKI 0454 |
B. mallei ATCC 23344 |
B. thailandensis E264 |
B. pseudomallei K96243 |
B. cenocepacia J2315 |
Wolbachia sp (wMel*) |
Wolbachia sp. TSR (wBM**) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genome size (bp) | 3,750,139 | 5,835,527 | 6,723,972 | 7,247,547 | 8,055,782 | 1,267,782 | 1,080,084 |
| G+C content (%) | 60.7 | 68.5 | 67.6 | 68.1 | 66.9 | 35.2 | 34.2 |
| ORFs (total) | 3827 | 5025 | 5634 | 5728 | 7269 | 1195 | 805 |
| Transposases and derivatives | 231 (6.0%) | 255 (5.0%) | 155 (2.8%) | 85 (1.5%) | 171 (2.5%) | 29 (2.4%) | 4 (0.5%) |
| Transcriptional regulators | 193 (5.0%) | 405 (8.0%) | 517 (9.2%) | 523 (9.1%) | 802 (11.0%) | 11 (0.9%) | 8 (1.0%) |
*wMel = Wolbachia endosymbiont of Drosophila melanogaster
**wBM = Wolbachia endosymbiont of Brugia malayi