Complete genome sequence of the industrial bacterium Bacillus licheniformis and comparisons with closely related Bacillusspecies

Table 1 Features of the B. licheniformis genome and comparison with genomes of other Bacillus species

Feature	B. licheniformis	B. subtilis*	B. halodurans ^†	Oceanobacillus iheyensis ^‡	B. anthracis ^§	B. cereus ^¶
Chromosome size (bp)	4,222,336	4,214,630	4,202,352	3,630,528	5,227,293	5,426,909
G+C content (mol%)	46.2	43.5	43.7	35.7	35.4	35.4
Protein coding sequences	4,208	4,106	4,066	3,496	5,508	5,366
Average length (bp)	873	896	879	883	800	835
Percent of coding region	86	87	85	85	84	84
Ribosomal RNA operons	7	10	8	7	11	13
Number of tRNAs	72	86	78	69	95	108
Phage-associated genes	71	268	42	27	62	124
Transposase genes of IS elements	10	0	93	14	18	10

*Kunst et al. [10]; ^†Takami et al. [13]; ^‡Takami et al. [16]; ^§Read et al. [61]; ^¶Ivanova et al. [62].

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