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. 2011 May 30;2:93. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00093

Table 2.

List of Bacteroidetes with a fully sequenced and published genome, and their respective habitats.

Species Genome size (CDS number) Habitat (functional role) Reference
FLAVOBACTERIA CLASS
Capnocytophaga ochracea DSM 7271 2.6 Mb (2193) Animals and humans (S/P) Mavrommatis et al. (2009)
Gramella forsetii KT0803 3.8 Mb (3585) North Sea surface water Bauer et al. (2006)
during phytoplankton bloom (E)
Robiginitalea biformata HTCC2501 3.5 Mb (3211) Sargasso Sea (E) Oh et al. (2009)
Flavobacterium johnsoniae UW101 6.1 Mb (5056) Soil and freshwater (E) McBride et al. (2009)
Flavobacterium psychrophilum JIP02/86 2.9 Mb (2432) Fish (P) Duchaud et al. (2007)
Croceibacter atlanticus HTCC2559 3.0 Mb (2715) Sargasso Sea (E) Oh et al. (2010)
Zunongwangia profunda SM-A87 5.1 Mb (4653) Deep-sea sediments (E) Qin et al. (2010)
Candidatus Sulcia muelleri GWSS 0.3 Mb (228) Sap-feeding insects flora (S) McCutcheon and Moran (2007)
Maribacter sp. HTCC2170 3.9 Mb (3411) Surface sea water, Oregon coast (E) Oh et al. (2011)
Periplaneta americana 0.6 Mb (581) Cockroach endosymbiont (S) Sabree et al. (2009)
Blattella germanica 0.6 Mb (586) Cockroach endosymbiont (S) Lopez-Sanchez et al. (2009)
Polaribacter dokdonensis MED152 3.0 Mb (2646) Northwestern Mediterranean Gonzalez et al. (2008)
sea surface water (E)
Dokdonia donghaensis MED134 3.3 Mb (2284) Korean sea water (E) Gomez-Consarnau et al. (2007)
Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis MED217 4.2 Mb (3735) Mediterranean sea water (E) Gomez-Consarnau et al. (2007)
SPHINGOBACTERIA CLASS
Chitinophaga pinensis DSM 2588 9.1 Mb (7302) Pine litter in Australia (E) Del Rio et al. (2010)
Pedobacter heparinus DSM 2366 5.2 Mb (4287) Soil (E) Han et al. (2009)
Salinibacter ruber M8 3.6 Mb (3086) Saltern crystallizer pond, Mallorca (E) Pena et al. (2010)
Salinibacter ruber M31 3.6 Mb (2934) Saturated thalassic brines (E) Mongodin et al. (2005)
Rhodothermus marinus R-10 3.4 Mb (2914) Submarine hot spring, Iceland (E) Nolan et al. (2009)
CYTOPHAGIACLASS
Dyadobacter fermentans NS114 7.0 Mb (5804) Stems from Zea mays (E) Lang et al. (2009)
Cytophaga hutchinsonii ATCC 33406 4.4 Mb (3790) Soil (E) Xie et al. (2007)
Spirosoma linguale 1 8.5 Mb (7069) Soil, freshwater (E) Lail et al. (2010)
BACTEROIDIA CLASS
Candidatus Azobacteroides 1.1 Mb (758) Endosymbiont of Hongoh et al. (2008)
pseudotrichonymphae CfPt1-2 termite gut protist (S)
Porphyromonas gingivalis ATCC 33277 2.4 Mb (2090) Deep periodontal pockets (P) Naito et al. (2008)
Porphyromonas gingivalis W83 2.3 Mb (1990) Deep periodontal pockets (P) Nelson et al. (2003)
Parabacteroides distasonis ATCC 8503 4.8 Mb (3867) Human gastrointestinal tract (S) Xu et al. (2007)
Bacteroides vulgatus ATCC 8482 5.2 Mb (4088) Human gastrointestinal tract (S) Xu et al. (2007)
Bacteroides fragilis NCTC 9343 5.2 Mb (4274) Human gastrointestinal tract (S/P) Cerdeno-Tarraga et al. (2005)
Bacteroides fragilis YCH46 5.3 Mb (4578) Human gastrointestinal tract (S/P) Kuwahara et al. (2004)
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron VPI-5482 6.3 Mb (4779) Human gastrointestinal tract (S) Xu et al. (2003)
Prevotella ruminicola 23 3.6 Mb (2763) Bovine rumen (S) Purushe et al. (2010)
Prevotella bryantii B14 3.6 Mb (2780) Bovine rumen (S) Purushe et al. (2010)
UNCLASSIFIED
Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus 5a2 1.9 Mb (1557) Obligate intracellular Schmitz-Esser et al. (2010)
ameba symbiont (S)

The functional role is given in brackets: S, symbiont; P, pathogen; E, environmental.