Table 1.

General features of the plasmids from completely sequenced Lactobacillaceae species

Basic features of plasmids	Values
Number and proportion of the strains having plasmids	155 (54.7 %)
Number and proportion of the species having plasmids	38 (66.6 %)
Total number of plasmids	512
GC content range (%)	28.9–76.5
Size range (Kb)	0.83–759.6
Total number of coding sequences (CDSs)	19 064
Range of CDSs per plasmid	1–809