Table 1 Genome features of two T. thermophilus strains and T. scotoductus SA-01

Size in base pairs

1,894,877

1,849,742

2,346,803

Plasmid size in base pairs

232,605

256,992 + 9322

8,383

Total genome size

2,127,482

2,116,056

2,355,186

G+C content in percentage^a

69.43 (69.15)

69.4 (69.3, 69.0)

64.9 (65.9)

Number of protein coding genes^a

1,982 (228)

1,970 (251, 14)

2,506 (12)

Total number of genes

2,204

2,238

2,518

Conserved hypothetical genes

240 (39)

241 (36,2)

367 (3)

Hypothetical genes

64 (22)

107 (30,7)

168 (1)

Transposases^a,b

12 (9)

16

22

tRNA genes

47

48

47

CRISPR sequences

9 + 1 candidate (8)

9 + 1 candidate (8)

3 + 1 candidate