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Table 1 Genome features of obligate intracellular symbiotic and parasitic bacteria

From: The cyanobacterial endosymbiont of the unicellular algae Rhopalodia gibba shows reductive genome evolution

Species

Genome size (Mbp)

AT-content genome (%)

AT-content 16S rDNA (%)

ATcontent 1st codon

ATcontent 2nd codon

ATcontent 3rd codon

Ref.

Buchnera aphidicola APS

0.66

73.7

49.86

62.62

69.41

85.77

[39]

Candidatus Blochmannia floridanus

0.71

72.6

52.89

61.33

68.08

83.95

[7]

Carsonella ruddii

0.16

83.4

64.15

80.26

79.61

92.22

[9]

Chlamydia trachomatis D/UW-3/CX

1.04

58.7

48.58

48.39

61.17

65.52

[40]

Rickettsia prowazekii Madrid E

1.11

71.0

49.5

58.95

68.24

81.53

[22]

Sodalis glossinidius

4.17

45.3

45.29

38.83

57.86

34.73

[12]

Wigglesworthia glossinidia

0.7

77.5

51.19

69.12

71.84

88.12

[38]

Spheroid body

n.d.

62.8 (fragment)

45.77

48.16

61.89

67.25

this paper

Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142

n.d.

60.2 (fragment)

45.42

49.16

61.40

66.81

this paper

  1. Genome size, AT-content and nucleotide composition of each codon position are indicated
  2. (References: [7,9,12,22,38–40]). n.d.: not determined