Table 1

Chromosomes analyzed from eubacterial phyla1

Phylum
Class1
Number

Actinobacteria

23
Bacteroidetes

5
Chlamydiae

11
Cyanobacteria

17
Deinococcus-Thermus

4
Firmicutes

79

Mollicutes
16

Lactobacillales
27

Clostridia
7

Bacillales
29
Proteobacteria

197

Alphaproteobacteria
55

Betaproteobacteria
38

Deltaproteobacteria
11

Epsilonproteobacteria
8

Gammaproteobacteria
85
Spirochaetes

6
Others

10

1The two phyla with the largest sample sizes are shown sub-divided by Class representation.

Morton and Morton BMC Genomics 2007 8:369   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-369