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Published in final edited form as: FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2012 Aug 2;335(1):11–18. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02632.x

Table 4.

Twenty four prokaryotic species with diversity >3% due to 5S-23S spacer length difference

Species Copy of genes 5S diversity %
5S 16S 23S
Archea: Euryarchaeota (n=1)
Methanosarcina acetivorans 3 3 3 4.44
Bacteria: Actinobacteria(n=3)
Thermobispora bispora 3 4 3 6.84
Streptomyces avermitilis 6 6 6 6.25
Streptomyces griseus subsp. griseus 6 6 6 3.70
Bacteria: Firmicutes (n=16)
Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans 9 10 11 22.86
Bacillus megaterium 12 11 11 14.78
Eubacterium rectale 5 5 5 8.55
Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis 10 10 10 6.90
Bacillus weihenstephanensis 14 14 14 6.03
Lactobacillus salivarius 7 7 7 6.03
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens 10 10 10 5.93
Bacillus pumilus 7 7 7 5.88
Geobacillus thermodenitrificans 10 10 10 5.51
Clostridium ljungdahlii 9 9 9 4.39
Bacillus anthracis 11 11 11 4.31
Bacillus thuringiensis 14 14 13 4.31
Clostridium novyi 10 10 10 4.17
Exiguobacterium sibiricum 9 9 9 3.48
Bacillus cereus 13 13 13 3.45
Clostridium botulinum 8 8 8 3.42
Bacteria: Gammaproteobacteria (n=4)
Psychromonas ingrahamii 11 10 10 15.45
Shewanella loihica 9 8 8 4.41
Shewanella halifaxensis 10 10 10 3.45
Pseudomonas stutzeri 4 4 4 3.33