Table 3

Diversity of monosaccharides, basetypes and basic entities for various taxonomic groups.
Group
 Monosaccharides
 Basetypes
 Basic entities
Mammalia
 35
 14
 10 *
Bacteria
 551
 143
 123
Actinobacteria
 100
 48
 33
Bacilli
 100
 41
 34
α-Proteobacteria
 68
 34
 26
β-Proteobacteria
 69
 33
 32
Enterobacteriales (γ-Proteobacteria)
 243
 76
 65
other γ-Proteobacteria
 203
 70
 76 **
δ/ε-Proteobacteria
 52
 35
 32

The total number of different monosaccharides, basetypes, and basic entities are listed for each group in taxonomy Set 1 and Set 2. When counting in the combined databases, an occurrence threshold of 10 for mammals and 2 for bacteria was employed.

* The basic entity D-Fuc was excluded from Mammalia for reasons given in the text.

** In this case there are more basic entities compared to basetypes because amino derivatives are included in the basic entities.

Herget et al. BMC Structural Biology 2008 8:35   doi:10.1186/1472-6807-8-35