Analysis of and function predictions for previously conserved hypothetical or putative proteins in Blochmannia floridanus

Table 1 Phylogenetic distribution of the previously conserved hypothetical proteins studied

Protein	Blochmannia	Buchnera/Wigglesw.	Proteobacteria	Bacteria general
Bfl043	+	-	+/-(no B.&W.)	-
Bfl045	+	+	+	-
Bfl048	+	-/+	+-	-
Bfl052	+	+	+	+
Bfl064 ?	+	-	+/-	-
Bfl155	+	+	+	+/-
Bfl165	+	+	+	-
Bfl220	+	+	+	+/-
Bfl248	+	+	+	-
Bfl258 ?	+	-/+	+/-	-
Bfl264	+	-	+/-(no B.&W.)	-
Bfl310 ?	+	-	+/-(no B.&W.)	+/-
Bfl316	+	+	+	-
Bfl341	+	+/-	+/-	-
Bfl363	+	-/+	+/-	-
Bfl367	+	+	+	+/-
Bfl377 ?	+	-/+	+/-	-
Bfl390	+	+	-	-
Bfl419 ?	+	-/+	+/-	-
Bfl423	+	-/+	+	+/-
Bfl442	+	+	+/-	-
Bfl451	+	+¹	+	-
Bfl460 ?	+	+²/-	+/-	-
Bfl499	+	-/+	+	-
Bfl547	+	-/+	+	-
Bfl573	+	+	+/-	-

+/- indicates in proteobacteria that it did not occur in some proteobacteria, if this is missing only in Buchnera and Wolbachia, this is specifically indicated by (no B. W.).
+/- indicates in bacteria general that it did occur in some non-proteobacteria but was not wide spread. "?" indicates the protein is still unknown in its function (Bfl377 and Bfl064 can be associated with functions, see text and Additional file 2). ¹This gene is absent in one of the three Buchnera genomes (BAp). ²This gene is absent in one of the three Buchnera genomes (BBp).

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