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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 May 26.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2005 Jul 15;309(5733):436–442. doi: 10.1126/science.1112680

Table 1.

Summary of the L. major genome.

Parameter Number
The genome
Size (bp) 32,816,678
G+C content (%) 59.7
Chromosomes 36
Sequence contigs 36
Percent coding 47.9
Protein-coding genes
Genes 8272
Pseudogenes 39
Mean CDS length (bp) 1901
Median CDS length (bp) 1407
G+C content (%) 62.5
Gene density (genes per Mb) 252
Intergenic regions*
Mean length (bp) 2045
G+C content (%) 57.3
RNA genes
tRNA 83
rRNA† 63
slRNA† 63
snRNA 6
snoRNA 695
srpRNA 1
*

Region between protein-coding CDS.

†

The exact number cannot be determined because of misassembly.