Table 1.
Information of complete genomes of Deinococcus species.
| Species | Identified in | Total genome size (Mb) | Replicons (sizes in kb) | Proteins | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deinococcus radiodurans (Drad) | Canned meat, USA | 3.28 | 4 (2649, 412, 177, 46) | 3167 | Anderson et al. (1956); Brooks and Murray (1981); White et al. (1999) |
| Deinococcus geothermalis (Dgeo) | Hot spring, Italy | 3.25 | 3 (2467, 574, 206) | 3003 | Ferreira et al. (1997); Makarova et al. (2007) |
| Deinococcus deserti (Ddes) | Sahara Desert sand, Morocco/Tunisia | 3.86 | 4 (2820, 325, 314, 396) | 3503 | de Groot et al. (2005, 2009) |
| Deinococcus maricopensis (Dmar) | Sonoran Desert soil, USA | 3.5 | 1 (3499) | 3242 | Rainey et al. (2005); Pukall et al. (2011) |
| Deinococcus gobiensis (Dgob) | Gobi Desert sand, China | 4.41 | 7 (3137, 433, 425, 232, 72, 55, 53) | 4140 | Yuan et al. (2009, 2012) |
| Deinococcus proteolyticus (Dpro) | Lama glama feces, Japan | 2.89 | 5 (2147, 315, 196, 132, 97) | 2645 | Kobatake, Tanabe and Hasegawa (1973); Brooks and Murray (1981); Copeland et al. (2012) |
| Deinococcus peraridilitoris (Dper) | Coastal desert soil, Chile | 4.51 | 3 (3882, 557, 75) | 4223 | Rainey et al. (2007) |
| Deinococcus swuensis (Dswu) | Mountain soil, South Korea | 3.53 | 1 (3531) | 3217 | Lee et al. (2013) |
| Deinococcus soli (Dsol) | Rice field soil, South Korea | 3.24 | 1 (3237) | 3055 | Cha et al. (2014); Joo et al. (2015) |
| Deinococcus actinosclerus (Dact) | Rocky hillside soil, South Korea | 3.26 | 1 (3264) | 3073 | Joo et al. (2016); Kim et al. (2016) |
| Deinococcus puniceus (Dpun) | Mountain soil, South Korea | 2.97 | 1 (2972) | 2681 | Lee et al. (2015) |