Table 1 General information about the genomes of B. japonicum strain CPAC 15 and B. diazoefficiens strain CPAC 7

Genome coverage

20-fold

20-fold

Circular chromosome

1

1

Size (bp)

9,582,287

9,085,545

G + C content (%)

63.54

63.98

Number of contigs

1

13

Coding region (% of genome size)

82

83

Average ORF size (bp)

909

927

Number of ORFs with assigned functions

4,203

4,147

Number of hypothetical ORFs

4,445

4,084

rRNA operons

2

1

tRNA genes

51

52

Total number of genes

8,648

8,231