Table 3 General characteristics of the S. leeuwenhoekii genome

Assembled chromosome size

7903895 bp

Estimated chromosome size

8285171 bp

Estimated Terminal Inverted Repeats

388272 bp

Chromosome topology

Linear

Chromosome G + C content

73 %

rRNA operons

6

tRNA genes

65

pSLE1 circular plasmid

86370 bp

pSLE1 G + C content

69 %

pSLE2 linear plasmid

132226 bp

pSLE2 G + C content

70 %

Putative biosynthetic gene clusters for specialised metabolites

34 (+1 in pSLE2)