Table 1. General features of the L. monocytogenes QOC1 and QOC2 genomes.

	QOC1	QOC2
Genome size (bp)*	2,931,460	2,857,445
No of contigs	7	4
G+C content (%)	38.0	38.0
No. of predicted codingsequences (CDS)	2890	2841
Average length of CDS	906	902
Coding density (%)	88.5	89.0
No. of rRNA operons	6	6
No. of tRNA genes	67	67
No. of phages#	–	–
Sequence type	403	398

*genomes are not closed.

^#excluding the monocin regions and contig 7 of strain QOC1.