TABLE 1.

General features of the M. maripaludis genome

Parameter	Value
Total no. of bases	1,661,137
No. of protein-coding genes	1,722
No. of predicted transmembrane proteins	350
Gene density (genes/kb)	1.036
Average gene length (bp)	857
Protein-coding percentage	88.9
No. of tRNAs	38
No. of rRNA operons	3
%GC	33.1