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Table 1 List of the organisms analyzed in this study

From: C/D box sRNA-guided 2′-O-methylation patterns of archaeal rRNA molecules

Organism

Phylum/Order

Growth temperature

GC content (%)

No. of C/D box sRNA genes

RNA-Seq dataset

Nanoarchaeum equitans (Neq)

Nanoarchaeota

80–100 °C

31.6

26

[15]

Ignicoccus hospitalis (Iho)

Crenarchaeota/Desulfurococcales

80–100 °C

56.5

128

[15]

Methanococcus maripaludis C5 (Mma)

Euryarchaeota/Methanococcales

35–40 °C

33.0

7

[19]

Methanopyrus kandleri (Mka)

Euryarchaeota/ Methanopyrales

84–110 °C

61.2

127

[16]

Pyrobaculum calidifontis (Pca)

Crenarchaeota/Thermoproteales

90–100 °C

57.2

88

[36]

Sulfolobus acidocaldarius (Sac)

Crenarchaeota/Sulfolobales

67–80 °C

36.7

61

[4, 5] and unpublished data

Thermoproteus tenax (Tte)

Crenarchaeota/Thermoproteales

70–97 °C

55.1

52

[18]

  1. The archaeal organisms and their respective abbreviations, phylogenetic classification, growth temperature, number of sRNA genes and database citations are indicated