. 2013 Apr 30;4(3):e00055-13. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00055-13

TABLE 1 .

T. deformans nuclear genome statistics and comparison to those of other members of the Taphrinomycotina subphylum

Characteristic	T. deformans	P. jirovecii^a	S. pombe^b
Assembly size (Mb)	13.3	8.1	12.5
Average GC (%)	49.5	29.1	36.0
No. of scaffolds	394	356^c	3^d
Scaffold N₅₀ (kb)	71.9	41.6^c	NA^e
Telomere repeat motif	TTAGGG	TTAGGG	TTAC(A)(C)G(1–8)
Repeat (%)	1.5^f	9.8	9.4
No. of protein-coding genes	5,735	3,898	5,124
Gene density (genes per Mb)	431	481	554
Average gene length (nt^g)	1,492	1,472	1,446
Mean exon per gene	2.1	3.7	2.0
Mean intron length (nt)	78	61	81
No. of tRNAs	169	71	171

^{^a}

These data are from reference 18. P. jirovecii infects specifically humans.

^{^b}

These statistics are from http://www.pombase.org (73).

^{^c}

Contigs.

^{^d}

Chromosomes.

^{^e}

NA, not applicable or not available from the website

^{^f}

Detailed description of T. deformans repeated elements is shown in Table S2 in the supplemental material.

^{^g}

nt, nucleotide.