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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.

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