TABLE 1.

General properties of the three genome sequences

Characteristic	M. alkalescens 14918	M. arginini 7264	M. bovigenitalium 51080
No. of contigs >500 bp	20	18	42
Median coverage	126×	158×	44×
GenBank accession no.	AMWK00000000	AORG00000000	AORH00000000
Genome size (bp)	771,939	615,621	862,247
G+C (%)	25.56	26.22	28.96
Gene density (%)	85.18	90.24	88.5
No. of CDSsa	601	513	677
No. of pseudogenes	33	9	24
No. of structural RNA genes	37	36	36

^aCDSs, coding sequences.