Whole genome sequencing of the fish pathogen Francisella noatunensis subsp. orientalis Toba04 gives novel insights into Francisella evolution and pathogenecity

Table 1 Summarizing some main characteristics for the genome sequence presented in this paper together with a representative set of other already sequenced Francisella genomes

	F. noatunensis subsp. Orientalis Toba04	F. philomiragia subsp. philomiragia ATCC 25017	F. tularensis subsp. novicida U112	F. tularensis subsp. medisisatica FSC 147	F.tularensis subsp. tularensis SCHU S4	F.tularensis subsp. holarctica OSU18
	Fish parasite	Free-living	Free-living	Mammalian parasite	Mammalian parasite	Mammalian parasite
Genome size(bp)	1,847,202	2,045,775	1,910.031	1,893,886	1,892,775	1,895,727
GC content(%)	32	32	32	32	32	32
ORFs	2289	1966	1781	1750	1852	1932
Protein coding genes	1595	1911	1719	1406	1604	1555
Structural RNAs	39	48	48	47	48	49
IS elements	0	8	29	85	78	116
Pathogenecity Island	1	1	1	2	2	2
Pseudogenes	252	3	14	297	200	328

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