Table 6. Proteins of D. kuznetsovii conserved across three related species with fully sequenced genomes^†.

Subject DB Input Query	D. acetoxidans	D. kuznetsovii	D. reducens	P. thermopropionicum
Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans	4,068	1,539	1,525	1,486
		1,309	1,316	1,255
Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii	1,509	3,398	1,518	1,645
	1,309		1,330	1,406
Desulfotomaculum reducens	1,537	1,571	3,276	1,438
	1,316	1,330		1,211
Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum	1,430	1,600	1,395	2,919
	1,255	1,406	1,211

^† BLAST analyses were performed using standard settings and best hits were filtered for 40% identity over an alignment length of 75 amino acids as a minimum requirement. The values show the number of predicted proteins that are homologous to the query species in each row. The number of similar proteins obtained with a unidirectional BLAST is indicated in light blue. Bidirectional best blast hits are indicated in dark blue. Proteomes were obtained from ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/Bacteria/. Accession numbers are in parenthesis: D. acetoxidans (NC_013216); D. kuznetsovii (NC_015573); “D. reducens” (NC_009253); Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum (NC_009454).