TABLE 1 .
General characteristics of Cyanothece genomesa
| Characteristic of Cyanothece strains | ATCC 51142
|
PCC 7424
|
PCC 7425
|
PCC 7822
|
PCC 8801
|
PCC 8802
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cell size (µm) | 4–5 | 7–8 | 3–4 | 8–10 | 4–5 | 4–5 |
| Site of isolation | Port Aransas, TX | Rice field, Senegal | Rice field, Senegal | Rice field, India | Rice field, Taiwan | Rice field, Taiwan |
| Size (Mbp) | 5.46 | 6.55 | 5.79 | 7.84 | 4.79 | 4.80 |
| No. of coding sequences | 5,304 | 5,710 | 5,327 | 6,642 | 4,367 | 4,444 |
| % G+C | 37.1 | 38.0 | 49.9 | 39.6 | 39 | 39 |
| No. of plasmids | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| No. of linear chromosomal elements | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| No. of pseudogenes | 6 | 177 | 131 | 341 | 200 | 206 |
a
Size bar, 2 μm.