The complete genome sequence of Xanthomonas albilineans provides new insights into the reductive genome evolution of the xylem-limited Xanthomonadaceae

Table 1 General features of nine Xanthomonadaceae chromosomes

Features	X. oryzae pv. oryzae strain MAFF 311018	X. campestris pv. campestris strain ATCC 33913	X. axonopodis pv. vesicatoria strain 85-10	X. axonopodis pv. citri strain 306	S. maltophilia strain K279a	S. maltophilia strain R551-3	X. fastidiosa strain 9a5c	X. fastidiosa strain Temecula1	X. albilineans strain GPE PC73
Size (bp)	4,940,217	5,076,187	5,178,466	5,175,554	4,851,126	4,573,969	2,679,306	2,519,802	3,768,695
G+C content (%)	63	65	65	64	66	66	52	51	63
Coding density (%)	83	84	87	84	88	89	83	79	84
Protein-coding sequences (CDS)	4372	4181	4487	4312	4386	4039	2766	2123	3115
Average length of all CDS (bp)	948	1027	1005	1032	980	1010	805	964	1059
Average length of the^a core genome CDS (bp)	1055	1058	1060	1056	1051	1048	1048	1044	1050
CDS < 300 bp	346	318	428	299	294	261	738	194	283
rRNA operons	2	2	2	2	4	4	2	2	2
tRNA	53	54	54	54	74	71	49	49	51

^acore genome CDS correspond to the 1256 orthologs shared by the nine Xanthomonadaceae

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