Table 5.

Number of genes associated with 25 general COG functional categories

Code	Bacillus sinesaloumensis		Bacillus dakarensis		Bacillus massiliogabonensis		Description
	Value	% Of total	Value	% Of total	Value	% Of total
[J]	236	5.45	237	4.70	250	4.95	Translation
[A]	0	0	0	0	0	0	RNA processing and modification
[K]	219	5.06	217	4.30	255	5.05	Transcription
[L]	104	2.40	111	2.20	126	2.49	Replication, recombination and repair
[B]	1	0.02	1	0.01	1	0.01	Chromatin structure and dynamics
[D]	52	1.20	56	1.11	58	1.14	Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis
[Y]	0	0	0	0	0	0	Nuclear structure
[V]	79	1.82	58	1.15	98	1.94	Defence mechanisms
[T]	151	3.49	197	3.90	198	3.92	Signal transduction mechanisms
[M]	122	2.82	132	2.61	139	2.75	Cell wall/membrane biogenesis
[N]	53	1.22	69	1.36	72	1.42	Cell motility
[Z]	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	Cytoskeleton
[W]	8	0.18	9	0.17	8	0.15	Extracellular structures
[U]	29	0.67	40	0.79	34	0.67	Intracellular trafficking and secretion
[O]	113	2.61	128	2.53	149	2.95	Post-translational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
[X]	26	0.60	32	0.63	66	1.30	Mobilome: prophages, transposons
[C]	167	3.86	254	5.03	208	4.12	Energy production and conversion
[G]	294	6.80	245	4.86	201	3.98	Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
[E]	291	6.73	368	7.30	329	6.52	Amino acid transport and metabolism
[F]	100	2.31	94	1.86	111	2.20	Nucleotide transport and metabolism
[H]	156	3.60	187	3.71	178	3.52	Coenzyme transport and metabolism
[I]	158	3.65	345	6.84	160	3.17	Lipid transport and metabolism
[P]	172	3.97	237	4.70	227	4.49	Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
[Q]	81	1.87	164	3.25	98	1.94	Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
[R]	278	6.43	363	7.20	300	5.94	General function prediction only
[S]	230	5.32	220	4.36	239	4.73	Function unknown
_	1582	36.59	1794	35.59	1982	39.28	Not in COGs

COG, cluster of orthologous groups.