Table 3.

Total number of putative CAZy genes, including glycoside hydrolase (GH), carbohydrate esterase (CE), auxiliary activity (AA) and polysaccharide lyase (PL) genes in selected genomes

	GHa	CEa	AAa	PLa
45 Lactococcus genomes	8–23b 9–51c	0–3 0–6	0–1 0–2	0–1 0–2
72 Serratia genomes	2–27 3–90	0–5 0–6	0–2 0–4	0–6 0–12
86 Enterococcus genomes	15–34 28–121	1–6 1–11	0–1 0–8	0–3 0–4
4 Dysgonomonas genomes	43–55 131–223	7–8 23–28	0–0 0–0	0–3 0–6
C. hutchinsonii ATCC 33406	19 50	7 14	0 0	3 3

This table also contains total number of CAZy genes number in selected genomes for the four genera of the core digestive microbiota of the insect and of Cytophaga hutchinsonii ATCC 33406, a model bacterium for cellulose degradation [21]. For more details on the CAZyme content, see Additional file 7: Table S2

C. hutchinsonii Cytophaga hutchinsonii. Data retrieved from the CAZy databases (http://www.cazy.org)

^aCAZyme class

^bTotal number of CAZyme families in the given class

^cTotal number of CAZyme genes in the given class