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. 2013 Oct;79(20):6351–6361. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02350-13

Table 1.

General features of Alishewanella species genomes

Parameter Value for Alishewanella species
A. jeotgali A. aestuarii A. agri
Isolation source Fermented food Tidal flat sediment Landfill soil
Genome size (bp) 3,844,563 3,588,054 3,491,709
GC content (%) 50.66 50.98 50.60
Plasmid detected None None None
No. of tRNA genes 64 70 68
No. of rRNA genes 6 4 3
    5S 1 0b 0b
    16S 1 2 1
    23S 4 2 2
No. of protein-coding sequences 3,669 3,380 3223
    No. (%) of protein-coding sequences with predicted function 1,728 (47.1) 2,305 (68.2) 1,625 (50.4)
    No. (%) of protein-coding sequences with assigned COGa 2,227 (60.7) 2,370 (70.1) 2,349 (72.9)
DNA coding density (%) 88.9 90.6 91.6
Average gene length (bp) 931.6 957.4 1,008.3
a

The COG category “function unknown (S)” was not included.

b

The number of rRNA genes was counted from different contigs. Additional rRNA genes can be present in gapped sequences.