| Species |
Size (millions of base pairs) |
Number of Predicted Genes |
| Archaea |
| |
| Archaeoglobus fulgidus |
2.18 |
2407 |
| Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum |
1.75 |
1869 |
| Nanoarchaeum equitans |
0.490 |
536 |
| Eubacteria |
| |
| Bacillus subtilis |
4.21 |
4100 |
| Bradyrhizobium japonicum |
9.11 |
8317 |
| Escherichia coli |
4.64 |
4289 |
| Haemophilus influenzae |
1.83 |
1709 |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
4.41 |
3918 |
| Mycoplasma genitalium |
0.58 |
480 |
| Staphylococcus aureus |
2.88 |
2697 |
| Vibrio cholerae |
4.03 |
3828 |
Table 20.1: Characteristics of representative prokaryotic genomes that have been completely sequenced