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Table 1 Distribution of sGCSs in different phyla.

From: A large scale comparative genomic analysis reveals insertion sites for newly acquired genomic islands in bacterial genomes

Taxon

Phylum

# of

chromosomes

# of sGCSs

Percentage of

sGCSs # < = 8

Average GC+/- SD (%)*

Average Length +/- SD (kb)$

   

2

4-8

> = 10

   

Archaea

Crenarchaeota

23

0

5

18

21.74%

44.39 +/- 9.66

2188.85 +/- 506.62

 

Euryarchaeota

57

7

13

37

35.09%

46.31 +/- 12.66

2211.67 +/- 1034.73

 

Korarchaeota

1

0

0

1

0.00%

49.75 +/- 0.00

1590.76 +/- 0.00

 

Nanoarchaeota

1

0

1

0

100.00%

31.60 +/- 0.00

490.88 +/- 0.00

 

Thaumarchaeota

1

0

0

1

0.00%

33.90 +/- 0.00

1645.26 +/- 0.00

Bacteria

Acidobacteria

3

0

0

3

0.00%

60.13 +/- 1.64

6581.12 +/- 3028.39

 

Actinobacteria

92

20

23

49

46.74%

65.08 +/- 7.01

4563.76 +/- 2248.12

 

Aquificae

7

0

1

6

14.29%

38.82 +/- 5.91

1680.59 +/- 161.52

 

Bacteroidetes

29

14

14

1

96.55%

41.95 +/- 11.91

3653.46 +/- 2340.45

 

Chlamydiae

15

14

1

0

100.00%

40.25 +/- 1.67

1209.16 +/- 343.03

 

Chlorobi

11

8

3

0

100.00%

50.64 +/- 4.40

2618.73 +/- 417.30

 

Chloroflexi

14

5

4

5

64.29%

55.78 +/- 7.93

3290.10 +/- 2063.61

 

Cyanobacteria

41

9

14

18

56.10%

44.76 +/- 10.19

3185.53 +/- 2028.34

 

Deferribacteres

2

2

0

0

100.00%

36.87 +/- 8.07

2728.23 +/- 698.40

 

Deinococcus-Thermus

7

3

3

1

85.71%

66.54 +/- 2.43

2170.02 +/- 900.69

 

Dictyoglomi

2

2

0

0

100.00%

34.66 +/- 0.02

1907.77 +/- 73.84

 

Elusimicrobia

2

2

0

0

100.00%

38.13 +/- 2.96

1384.71 +/- 366.07

 

Fibrobacteres

1

1

0

0

100.00%

47.74 +/- 0.00

3842.64 +/- 0.00

 

Firmicutes

200

198

2

0

100.00%

38.54 +/- 6.93

3081.76 +/- 1184.70

 

Fusobacteria

4

2

2

0

100.00%

28.83 +/- 3.56

2680.38 +/- 1205.57

 

Gemmatimonadetes

1

0

1

0

100.00%

64.17 +/- 0.00

4636.96 +/- 0.00

 

Nitrospirae

1

0

0

1

0.00%

33.91 +/- 0.00

2003.80 +/- 0.00

 

Planctomycetes

2

1

1

0

100.00%

56.21 +/- 1.74

6670.89 +/- 671.31

 

Proteobacteria

586

369

155

62

89.42%

53.12 +/- 12.12

3516.36 +/- 1661.41

 

Spirochaetes

24

21

3

0

100.00%

35.65 +/- 7.38

1680.71 +/- 1445.58

 

Synergistetes

2

2

0

0

100.00%

54.16 +/- 12.43

1914.53 +/- 93.42

 

Tenericutes

27

12

15

0

100.00%

27.98 +/- 3.40

892.61 +/- 204.62

 

Thermobaculum

2

1

1

0

100.00%

56.02 +/- 11.51

1550.79 +/- 673.39

 

Thermotogae

11

0

6

5

54.55%

40.19 +/- 6.51

1976.74 +/- 160.46

 

Verrucomicrobia

4

3

1

0

100.00%

55.24 +/- 8.47

3664.91 +/- 1649.61

Total

 

1173

696

269

208

82.27%

  
  1. * Average GC content and standard deviations (SD) were calculated according to the different strains in the phylum.
  2. $Average length was calculated by averaging the complete genome length in the phylum.