Table 1 Characteristic summary of MCG fosmid/cosmid clones

From: Genetic and functional properties of uncultivated MCG archaea assessed by metagenome and gene expression analyses

 

37F10

75G8

26B6

E6-3G

E37-7F

E48-1C

Insert length (bp)

34 528

33 887

34 877

38 227

42 618

34 738

G+C content (%)

52.5

56.9

44.7

50.1

37.5

44.9

G+C content of 16S rRNA (%)

58.0

59.8

59.1

57.6

55.9

58.6

rrn operon and tRNA

16S

16S–23S tRNAIle

16S tRNAAla, tRNATrp

16S-5.8S–23S

16S-5.8S–23S tRNAArg, tRNACys

16S tRNASer

No. of predicted ORFs

36

32

40

30

41

37

No. of conserved hypothetic protein

4

4

10

3

4

4

No. of hypothetical protein

7

3

9

12

8

13

Average ORF length

807

756

747

885

696

706

16S rRNA identities to 37F10 (%)

100

87

86

82

82

89

  1. Abbreviations: ORF, Open Reading Frame; MCG, Miscellaneous Crenarchaeota group.