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Table 1 General features of the 6 obligatory halophilic and 24 non-halophilic microbial genomes under study

From: Molecular signature of hypersaline adaptation: insights from genome and proteome composition of halophilic prokaryotes

Halophiles

    

Organism

Abbreviation

Group

ORFs under study

GC-content (%)

   Haloarcula marismortui ATCC 43049 Ch I

HMAR1

Euryarchaeota

2,705

62

   Haloarcula marismortui ATCC 43049 Ch II

HMAR2

Euryarchaeota

217

57

   Halobacterium salinarum DSM 671

HSAL

Euryarchaeota

2,191

68

   Halobacterium sp. NRC-1

HALO

Euryarchaeota

1,782

67

   Haloquadratum walsbyi DSM 16790

HWAL

Euryarchaeota

2,270

48

   Natronomonas pharaonis DSM 2160

NPHA

Euryarchaeota

2,314

63

   Salinibacter ruber DSM 13855

SRUB

Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi

2,631

66

Non-halophiles

    

   Acidobacteria bacterium Ellin345

ABAC

Acidobacteria

4,507

58

   Aeropyrum pernix K1*

APER

Crenarchaeota

1,519

56

   Azoarcus sp. EbN1

AZOA

Betaproteobacteria

3,673

65

   Bifidobacterium longum NCC2705

BLON

Actinobacteria

1,643

60

   Caulobacter crescentus CB15

CCRE

Alphaproteobacteria

3,453

67

   Escherichia coli K12

ECOL

Gammaproteobacteria

3,829

50

   Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421

GVIO

Cyanobacteria

3,947

62

   Methanosaeta thermophila PT*

MTHP

Euryarchaeota

1,535

53

   Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus str. Delta H*

MTHA

Euryarchaeota

1,641

50

   Pelobacter propionicus DSM 2379

PPRO

Deltaproteobacteria

3,404

58

   Pelodictyon luteolum DSM 273

PLUT

Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi

1,926

57

   Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum SI

PTHE

Firmicutes

2,544

53

   Polaromonas sp. JS666

POLA

Betaproteobacteria

5,217

62

   Pseudomonas putida KT2440

PPUT

Gammaproteobacteria

4,906

61

   Pyrobaculum calidifontis JCM 11548*

PCAL

Crenarchaeota

1,932

57

   Roseiflexus castenholzii DSM 13941

RCAS

Chloroflexi

4,077

61

   Shigella boydii Sb227

SBOY

Gammaproteobacteria

3,660

47

   Synechococcus sp. WH 7803

SYNE

Cyanobacteria

2,141

60

   Thermococcus kodakarensis KOD1*

TKOD

Euryarchaeota

2,006

52

   Thermofilum pendens Hrk 5*

TPEN

Crenarchaeota

1,647

58

   Thermoplasma acidophilum DSM 1728*

TACI

Euryarchaeota

1,371

46

   Thermotoga maritima MSB8*

TMAR

Thermotogae

1,695

46

   Uncultured methanogenic archaeon RC-I

UMET

Euryarchaeota

2,800

55

   Yersinia pestis Antiqua

YPES

Gammaproteobacteria

3,744

48

  1. *Organisms with optimum growth temperature ≥ 65°C.
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