Table 2.

General characteristics of four snake mitochondrial genomes

Taxa	Genome Length (bp)					G + C nucleotide content (%)
	Total	Protein coding	rRNAs	tRNAs	Control region	Total	Protein coding	rRNAs	tRNAs	Control region
Ramphotyphlops braminus	16397	11286	2366	1456	1278	42.9	42.8	46.9	41.1	39.3
Deinagkistrodon acutus	17548	11287	2384	1430	2410	42.1	43.0	41.2	42.2	38.7
Naja naja	17213	11241	2426	1435	2057	41.7	41.7	42.5	43.5	39.8
Enhydris plumbea	17397	11261	2398	1416	2238	40.6	40.2	42.1	42.9	39.1