Table 1.

Genes used as conservative markers of the two distinctive Exiguobacterium groups by Vishnivetskaya et al. (2009).

Function	Gene ID∗	Genes	Detectable homologous
			Vishnivetskaya et al., 2009		This work
			Group I	Group II	Group I	Group II
Replication and repair	Exig_0006	gyrA	+	-	+	+
	Exig_0005	gyrB	+	+	+	+
	Exig_2932	srmB/csh	+	-	+	+
	Exig_3033	dnaB	+	-	+	+
Transcription	Exig_2463	flgM	+	-	+	-
	Exig_0137	Anti-sigma factor	+	-	+	+
	Exig_0136	rpoE	+	-	+	+
Translation and biogenesis	Exig_0119	infA	+	+	+	+
	Exig_1837	infB	+	+	+	+
	Exig_0047	RNA-binding S4	+	-	+	+
	Exig_2427	Sigma54 S30EA	+	+	+	+
Posttranslational modification,	Exig_2147	tig	+	-	+	+
chaperones	Exig_0781	dnaK	+	+	+	+
	Exig_2768	groL	+	+	+	+
Signal transduction	Exig_0364	uspA	+	-	+	+
Lipid metabolism	Exig_2596	desA	+	+	+	+

^∗Gene IDs are given as defined in http://genome.ornl.gov/microbial/exig/.