Selected Examples of Bacterial Chromosomes
Taxon
Description of Chromosome
Size
Haemophilus influenzae
Single Circle
1,830,137 bp
Escherichia coli
4.64 mb
Archaeoglobus fulgidus
2.2 mb
Borrelia burgdorferi
Helicobacter pylori
Methanococcus jannaschii
Mycoplasma genitalium
Treponema pallidum
by Kenneth G. Wilson, Professor of Botany Miami University wilsonkg@muohio.edu