Table 1

Features of the B. licheniformis genome and comparison with genomes of other Bacillus species
Feature
 B. licheniformis
 B. subtilis*
 B. halodurans†
 Oceanobacillus iheyensis‡
 B. anthracis§
 B. cereus
Chromosome size (bp)
 4,222,336
 4,214,630
 4,202,352
 3,630,528
 5,227,293
 5,426,909
G+C content (mol%)
 46.2
 43.5
 43.7
 35.7
 35.4
 35.4
Protein coding sequences
 4,208
 4,106
 4,066
 3,496
 5,508
 5,366
Average length (bp)
 873
 896
 879
 883
 800
 835
Percent of coding region
 86
 87
 85
 85
 84
 84
Ribosomal RNA operons
 7
 10
 8
 7
 11
 13
Number of tRNAs
 72
 86
 78
 69
 95
 108
Phage-associated genes
 71
 268
 42
 27
 62
 124
Transposase genes of IS elements
 10
 0
 93
 14
 18
 10

*Kunst et al. [10]; †Takami et al. [13]; ‡Takami et al. [16]; §Read et al. [61]; Ivanova et al. [62].

Rey et al. Genome Biology 2004 5:r77   doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r77