Table 1 |
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Classification of organisms by phenotypic traits |
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Environmental property |
Number of prokaryotes |
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Pathogenicity |
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Pathogenic |
138 |
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Non-pathogenic |
263 |
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Total |
401 |
|
Oxygen requirement |
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Aerobic |
142 |
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Anaerobic |
135 |
|
Facultative |
150 |
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Microaerophilic |
12 |
|
Total |
439 |
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Salinity |
|
|
Extreme halophilic |
7 |
|
Mesophilic |
19 |
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Moderate halophilic |
20 |
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Non-halophilic |
58 |
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Total |
104 |
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Temperature range |
|
|
Hyperthermophilic |
35 |
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Mesophilic |
361 |
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Psychrophilic |
12 |
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Thermophilic |
51 |
|
Total |
459 |
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Habitat |
|
|
Multiple |
127 |
|
Specialized |
81 |
|
Total |
208 |
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Botzman and Margalit Genome Biology 2011 12:R109 doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-10-r109 |
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