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Tools<br />
Size distribution of prokaryotic genomes (N = 779) AT content distribution of prokaryotic genomes (N = 779)<br />
for Comparison of Bacterial Genomes<br />
Crenarchaeota (n = 16)<br />
Euryarchaeota (n = 35)<br />
Nanoarchaeota (n = 1)<br />
Acidobacteria (n = 2)<br />
Act<strong>in</strong>obacteria (n = 55)<br />
Aquificae (n = 3)<br />
Bacteroidetes/chlorobi ( n = 26)<br />
Chlamydiae/verrucomicrobia (n = 13)<br />
Chloroflexi (n = 7)<br />
Cyanobacteria (n = 33)<br />
De<strong>in</strong>ococcus/thermus (n = 4)<br />
Firmicutes (n = 155)<br />
Fusobacteria (n = 1)<br />
Planctomycetes (n = 1)<br />
Alphaproteobacteria (n = 94)<br />
Betaproteobacteria (n = 61)<br />
Gammaproteobacteria (n = 191)<br />
Deltaproteobacteria (n = 21)<br />
Epsilonproteobacteria (n = 22)<br />
Spirochaetes (n = 16)<br />
Thermotogea (n = 8)<br />
Other archaea (n = 1)<br />
Other bacteria (n = 13)<br />
80<br />
70<br />
50 60<br />
AT content (percent)<br />
40<br />
30<br />
12<br />
10<br />
6 8<br />
Genome size (Mbp)<br />
4<br />
2<br />
0<br />
. Figure 1<br />
(a) Box <strong>and</strong> Whisker plot of genome length distribution for 779 bacterial chromosomes, grouped by phyla. The phylum <strong>and</strong> the number of chromosomes<br />
<strong>in</strong>cluded are <strong>in</strong>dicated at the left. Each phylum is colored accord<strong>in</strong>g to our GenomeAtlas website. (b) The distribution of average chromosomal AT content<br />
for the same set of bacterial genomes.