Table 1.

Genomes used in this study.

Microorganism	Genome size (Mbp)	Predicted protein coding sequences	Genome G+C (%)	Genome accession number (NCBI)	References
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270T	2.98	3147	58.8	CP001219	Valdés et al., 2008
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 53993	2.88	2826	58.9	CP001132	Lucas et al., 2008, Unpublished
Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans SS3T	3.2	3093	56.6	CP002985	Liljeqvist et al., 2011
Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans CF27	3.42	3854	56.4	CCCS020000000	Talla et al., 2014
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans A01	3.82	3826	53.1	AZMO00000000	Yin et al., 2014
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans ATCC 19377T	3.01	3041	53.1	AFOH00000000	Valdés et al., 2011
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans Licanantay	3.93	4191	52.8	JMEB00000000	Travisany et al., 2014
Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756T	2.77	2681 (0.21)P	61.4	CP005986-CP005989	Valdes et al., 2009
Acidithiobacillus caldus SM-1	2.93	2881 (0.31)P	61.3	CP002573-CP002577	You et al., 2011
Thermithiobacillus tepidarius DSM 3134T	2.96	2750	66.8	AUIS00000000	Kelly and Wood, 2000
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain BY0502	2.97	2822	56.8	LVXZ00000000	Zhou, 2016, Unpublished
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain DLC-5	4.23	5600	57.6	JNNH00000000*	Chen et al., 2015
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain YQH-1	3.11	2949	58.6	LJBT00000000	Yan et al., 2015
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain Hel18	3.11	2939	58.6	LQRJ00000000	Schopf, 2016, Unpublished
Acidithiobacillus caldus strain MTH-04	2.87	2646	61.4	LXQG00000000	Mi et al., 2006, Unpublished
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans DMC	3.85	3768	53.1	LWSB00000000	Zhang et al., 2016

^T,denotes type strain;

^P,denotes plasmid information.

^*Denotes JGI accession number.