Table 1.

Statistics on non-coding (NC) sequences in tunicate mitochondrial genomes.

Species	% NC	Length (bp)	Longest NC region
			bp	location
Ciona intestinalis	2.9	429	85	nd1 - lrRNA
Ciona savignyi	2.9	428	194	nd1 - tRNA Pro
Phallusia fumigata	5.89	915	134	cox1 - tRNA Gly (GGN)
Phallusia mammillata	1.94	283	65	tRNA Cys - nd4L
Doliolium nationalis	14.71	2405	968	cox3 - cox2
Halocynthia roretzi	3.09	456	112	nd4 - tRNA Val
Herdmania momus	9.21	1457	197	nd6 - tRNA Tyr

* including 1 bp-long spacers.