Table 3.

Repeat structure of microbial genomes

Genome	Reference	Length (bp)	Number of	The longest merging	Number of classes	Number of classes
			merging repeats	repeat (bp)		with more than
						two elements
Treponema pallidum	[16]	1,138,006	87	3283	31	4
Chlamydia pneumoniae	[18]	1,229,853	74	2519	25	3
Methanococaus jannaschii	[15]	1,664,976	557	4929	113	23
Helicobacter pylori	[19]	1,667,867	297	2317	95	21
Thermotoga maritima	[17]	1,860,725	218	1697	43	8
Neisseria meningitidis	[20]	2,272,351	1155	9900	162	38
Caulobacter crescentus	[21]	4,016,917	1114	4206	216	50