Table 1. General features of the genome of the Welgevonden strain of E. ruminantium.

Size, bp	1,516,355
G + C content, %	27.5
Protein coding regions,* %	62.0
CDSs total, n	920
Average length, bp	1,032
Probable pseudogenes, n (%)	32 (3.5)
Average length, bp	276
Predicted protein CDSs, n (%)	888 (96.5)
Average length, bp	1,059
CDSs with functional information,†n (%)	758 (82.8)
Conserved hypothetical genes, n (%)	50 (5.5)
Genes with no functional information, n (%)	80 (8.7)
Stable RNAs
rRNAs, n	3
tRNAs, n	36
Other RNAs (tmRNA/rnpB), n	2
Tandem repeats, bp (%)	82,172 (5.4)
Dispersed repeats (direct and inverted), bp (%)	43,976 (2.9)

^*Not including pseudogenes.

^†Includes CDSs with database matches to genes of known function, matches to pfam or prosite entries, or informative hydrophobicity plots.