Table 1. Genome statistics and numbers of different types of TUs for Synechocystis 6803 and 6714. gTUs were assumed to be conserved when the complete TU arrangement including the covered CDSs was conserved. Alignment positions with regard to the encoded amino acid sequence were used for the determination of conserved aTUs and iTUs. Conserved nTUs were detected via BLASTN and known non-nTU sRNAs were included.

	Synechocystis 6803a	Synechocystis 6714	Conservation
Genome [kb]	3957	3739	ANI: 86%; 16S: 99.4%
Plasmids	7	3	-
Protein genes	3683	3770	2854
Non-coding fraction	12.85%	12.47%	-

^aNumbers for Synechocystis 6803 are taken from the literature¹⁹. ANI = average nucleotide identity.