Table 2.

Annotation overview.

	MBR1 strain (2014)	KUST strain (2006)*
Number of CDS	4,044	3,772
Average gene length	876 bp	902 bp
Coding density	81.2%	81.7%
Genes with functional assignments	1,912 (46.7%)	1,446 (38.3%)
Number of rRNAs	3 (16S-23S-5S)	3 (16S-23S-5S)
Number of tRNAs	45 + 1 tmRNA	45 + 1 tmRNA

*The KUST genome was re-annotated using Prokka to ensure fair comparisons could be made with the MBR1 strain.