Table 2.

General comparative analysis of C. estertheticum DSM 8809; Clostridium botulinum A str. Hall and Clostridium perfringenes str. 13.

Features	C. estertheticum DSM 8809	C. botulinum A str. Hall	C. perfringens str. 13
Genome size (bp)	4,760,574	3,760,560	3,031,430
No. of plasmids	1	0	1
G+C content (%)	30.92	28.18	28.57
No. of predicted coding sequences (CDS)	4,391	3,397	2,670
No. of rRNA operons	47	24	30
No. of tRNA operons	91	81	98
No. of ncRNA operons	76	64	56
No. of phages (PHAST)	One intact	Three incomplete	One incomplete
	One incomplete
	One questionable
No. of CRISPR regions	0	4	0