Genomic sequence analysis and characterization of Sneathia amnii sp. nov

BMC Genomics

Table 1 General features of S. amnii genome and related organisms.

	S. amnii	S. moniliformis	L. buccalis	S. termiditis
Approximate Genome Size (bp)	1,339,284	1,673,280	2,465,610	4,486,650
Total DNA Coding region (b)	1,207,722	1,556,870	2,139,206	3,918,335
Average intergenic region (b)	80	77	129	128
Average gene density (genes/Mbp)	968	903	935	938
G+C content (%)	28.30	26.28	29.65	33.38
tRNA genes	34	39	46	40
Predicted ORFS¹	1,282	1,511	2,306	4,210
Average ORF size in bp (aa)²	942 (314)	1014 (338)	924 (308)	927 (309)
Genes assigned to COGs³	1,042	1,111	1,731	2,229
Genes associated with a putative function⁴	852	907	1306	2164
Genes with signal peptides	137	262	432	801
Genes with transmenbrane helices	257	343	530	901

¹Open reading frames predicted as described in the Materials and Methods;
²Average ORFs sizes shown herein were calculated using protein-coding sequences available at GeneBank: S. moniliformis (1434 protein sequences), L. buccalis (2220 protein sequences) and S. termiditis (4083 protein sequences);
³Clusters of orthologous groups as described in the Materials and Methods;
⁴Genes assigned to general functional prediction only (Category R) and function unknown (Category S) were not included.

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