More Than 200 Genes Required for Methane Formation from H₂ and CO₂ and Energy Conservation Are Present in Methanothermobacter marburgensis and Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus

Figure 1

Synteny between the genomes of Methanothermobacter marburgensis and Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus. x-axis: position of CDS on the genome of M. marburgensis; y-axis: position of homologous CDS on the genome of M. thermautotrophicus. The chromosome of M. thermautotrophicus (extracted from NC_000916) was rearranged so that it starts at the corresponding CDS encoding the Cdc6 protein. Colinear similarities are depicted by red dots and anti-parallel similarities by blue dots. The synteny plot was produced by the programs of the MUMmer suite [51]. The CDS not in common are dispersed around the two genomes; many are concentrated at the four genome areas indicated by the four arrows.