Table 3.

Gene prediction in extended sequences anchored on the physical map

Category	Measure
Extended sequence contigs (number)	7,185
Mean extended length (bp)	7,869
N50 (bp)	10,830
Genes/gene fragments (number)	17,093
Complete genes (number)	9,716
Genes aligned to ESTs (percentage)	84.0
Genes aligned to proteins (percentage)	95.4
Averaged gene length (bp)	2,772
Average exon number per gene	5.5
Median exon length (bp)	245
Average exon length (bp)	266
Median intron length (bp)	151
Average intron length (bp)	156
Gene fragments (number)	7,377