Table 1 Features of the draft genome of Babesia sp. Xinjiang (Bx) with those of B. bovis, B. bigemina and B. microti
From: Genomic resources for a unique, low-virulence Babesia taxon from China
Features | Babesia sp. Xinjiang (Bx) | Babesia bovis | Babesia bigemina | Babesia microti |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Genome size (Mb) | 8.4 | 8.2 | 13.8 | 6.5 |
Number of scaffolds or chromosomes | 215 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
N50 for scaffolds (kb) | 533.30 | – | 3520 | – |
N90 for scaffolds (kb) | 96.98 | – | – | – |
Genome GC content (%) | 43.9 | 41.5 | 50.6 | 36.0 |
Repetitive sequences (%) | 4.3 | – | – | – |
Exonic proportion/incl. introns (%) | 63/71 | 70/73 | –/63 | 73/81 |
Number of nuclear protein-coding genes | 3066 | 3706 | 4457 | 3513 |
Gene density (bp per gene) | Â | 2194 | 2306 | 1816 |
Mean gene length including introns (bp) | 1958 | 1609 | 1531 | 1471 |
Mean CDS length (bp) | 1721 | 1503 | – | 1327 |
Mean exon number per gene | 3.3 | 2.8 | – | 3.3 |
Mean exon length (bp) | 530 | 547 | – | 397 |
Mean intron length (bp) | 106 | 60 | – | 61 |
Coding GC content (%) | 45.4 | 44.0 | 51.7 | 39.0 |
Number of predicted tRNAs | 41 | 70 | – | 44 |
BUSCO completeness (%/count) | 45/195 | 48/204 | 49/210 | 49/212 |