Table 1.
Comparative statistics of Ae. aegypti nuclear genome coding characteristics
| Species | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Ae. aegypti | An. gambiae c | D. melanogaster c |
| Size (Mbp) | 1,376 | 272.9 | 118 |
| Number of chromosomes | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Total G+C composition (%) | 38.2 | 40.9 | 42.5 |
| Number of protein coding genes | 15,419 | 13,111 | 13,718 |
| Average gene lengtha (bp) | 14,587 | 5,124 | 3,460 |
| Average protein coding gene lengthb (bp) | 1,397 | 1,154 | 1,693 |
| Percent genes with introns | 90.1 | 93.6 | 86.2 |
| Average number of exons/gene | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.9 |
| Average intron length (bp) | 4,685 | 808 | 1,175 |
| Longest intron (bp) | 329,294 | 87,786 | 132,737 |
| Average length of intergenic region (bp) | 56,417 | 17,265 | 6,043 |
a
includes introns but not UTRs.
b
not including introns.
c
statistics were derived from genome updates for these species An. gambiae R-AgamP3 and D. melanogaster R-4.2.