An in silico analysis of T-box regulated genes and T-box evolution in prokaryotes, with emphasis on prediction of substrate specificity of transporters

Table 3 The occurrence of T-boxes in different bacterial phyla. The phyla are taken from the NCBI taxonomy [68].

Phylum	Genomes sequenced	Genomes with at least one T-box	Number of T-boxes
Firmicutes	53	53	855
Actinobacteria	19	12	32
Chloroflexi	2	2	6
Deinococcus/Thermus	3	1	2
Proteobacteria	125	2	2
Cyanobacteria	13	0	0
Chlamydiae	10	0	0
Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi	7	0	0
Spirochaetes	6	0	0
Planctomycetes	1	0	0
Aquificiates	1	0	0
Fusobacteria/Thermotogae	2	0	0
Total	242	70	897

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