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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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