Table 6

Genes used in multigene study:

1/ whole set of species:

Adenylosuccinate lyase

1.3 kb

Adenylosuccinate synthetase

1.3 kb

Alanyl-tRNA synthetase

2.6 kb

Argininosuccinate synthase

1.3 kb

Argininosuccinate lyase

1.4 kb

Arginyl-tRNA synthetase

1.7 kb

Aspartate aminotransferase

1.2 kb

Aspartyl-tRNA synthetase

1.8 kb

Carbamyl-phosphate synthase

3.2 kb

Cell division protein ftsZ

1.2 kb

Chorismate synthase

1.1 kb

CTP synthase

1.6 kb

DNA-directed RNA polymerase

2.6 kb

DNA topoisomerase I

2.0 kb

Elongation factor 2

2.1 kb

Enolase

1.3 kb

5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthetase

1.3 kb

Glutamine synthetase

1.5 kb

Leucyl-tRNA synthetase

2.8 kb

Methionyl-tRNA synthetase

2.1 kb

Ornithine carbamoyltransferase

1.0 kb

Pantothenate metabolism flavoprotein

1.2 kb

D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase

1.2 kb

Phosphoglycerate kinase

1.2 kb

Phosphomannomutase

1.3 kb

Phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase II

3.8 kb

Queuine tRNA-ribosyltransferase

1.1 kb

Ribonucleotide reductase

2.3 kb

Serine hydroxymethyltransferase

1.2 kb

Thermosome alpha subunit

1.6 kb

Threonyl-tRNA synthetase

2.0 kb

Translation elongation factor EF-Tu

1.3 kb

Valyl-tRNA synthetase

2.6 kb

Total length = 57.2 kb

2/ partial set of species:

Acetolactate synthase large subunit

1.7 kb

Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase

1.4 kb

Galactosyltransferase

1.1 kb

GTP cyclohydrolase II

1.1 kb

Histidine kinase

2.0 kb

Phosphoenolpyruvate synthase

2.4 kb

dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase

1.1 kb

Tryptophan synthase subunit beta

1.2 kb

X-pro aminopeptidase

1.3 kb

Chapus et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005 5:63   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-63