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. 2013 Aug 8;14:537. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-537

Table 2.

Total genome sizes of five E. coli strains estimated by PFGE and icosihenamer analysis

 
Genome size (Mb)
Method Strain A_03_34 Strain B_04_28 Strain C_04_22 Strain D_04_27 Strain E_01_37
PFGEa
4.869
5.047
5.149
5.423
5.268
21-mer analysis of sequencing reads 4.776 4.935 5.181 5.219 5.502

aRestriction digests of genomic DNAs with I-CeuI endonuclease yielded seven restriction fragments for each genome, the sizes of which are listed in Additional file 3: Table S3.