FIGURE 4.

Feature distribution within the analyzed Methylobacterium genomes and reference genomes of plant-associated methylobacteria. The two algae-growth-promoting isolates M. extorquens Rab1 and M. mesophilicum Sab1 were compared with other isolates in order to identify distinct genetic features. Detected genes were grouped according to hierarchical assignment to SEED functions and visualized with Circos (http://circos.ca) to highlight the distribution of functional categories in each genome. A detailed feature count per organism per subcategory is included in Table 2 according to the SEED database after annotation using RAST (Aziz et al., 2008). Strain references: ¹Kwak et al., 2014, ²Tani et al., 2015, ³Eevers et al., 2015.