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Table 1 Comparison of the genomes of “Ca. Kuenenia stuttgartiensis” strain KUST, strain MBR1, and strain CSTR1

From: Comparative genomics in “Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis” reveal high genomic plasticity in the overall genome structure, CRISPR loci and surface proteins

Strain

KUST [9]

MBR1 [15]

CSTR1 (this study)

Status

High quality draft (5 supercontigs)

Complete genome

Complete genome

Size

4,218,325

4,406,132

4,334,932

Sequencing technology

Sanger sequencing

SMRT sequencing

SMRT sequencing

GC %

41.0

41.1

41.0

Prediction of coding sequence

dps/orpheus, AMIGene, glimmer/rbsfinder and genemarks/genemark.

hmm

Prodigal [18] in Prokka pipeline [19]

AMIGene in MaGe pipeline [20]

# Coding sequences (CDSs)

4664

4043

4965

Coding density %

85.9

81.2

85.7

Average gene length

776

902

751

# rRNA operons (5S, 16S, 23S)

1

1

1

# tRNAs

44

45

45

  1. MBR1 has much fewer predicted CDSs than the other two genomes and therefore a lower coding density and a higher average gene length due to usage of a different coding sequence prediction tool (Prodigal)