Comparative Analysis of Genome of Ehrlichia sp. HF, a Model Bacterium to Study Fatal Human Ehrlichiosis

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Genome properties of representative Ehrlichia species

Ehrlichia Species¹	EHF	ECH	EMU	EmCRT²	ECA	ERW
NCBI RefSeq	NZ_CP007474	NC_007799	NC_023063	NZ_LANU01000001	NC_007354	NC_005295
Size (bp)	1,148,904	1,176,248	1,196,717	1,148,958	1,315,030	1,516,355
GC (%)	29.6	30.1	29.7	29.8	29.0	27.5
Protein	866	892	874	866	933	934
tRNA	36	37	37	36	36	36
rRNA	3	3	3	3	3	3
Other RNA	4	3	3	4	3	4
Pseudogene	11	17	24	15	10	18
Total Gene	920	952	941	924	985	995

¹Abbreviations: EHF Ehrlichia sp. HF (HF565), EMU E. muris subsp. muris AS145, EmCRT E. muris subsp. eauclairensis Wisconsin, ECH E. chaffeensis Arkansas, ECA E. canis Jake, ERW E. ruminantium Welgevonden
²The genome of E. muris subsp. eauclairensis Wisconsin is incomplete, consisting of 3 contigs, NZ_LANU01000001, NZ_LANU01000002, and NZ_LANU01000003

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