Table 2. Comparison of effect on comparative genomics study with and without physical map contig-specific sequences (PMCSS).

	With BES only	With BES &PMCSS
Number of unique genome sequence contig hits	27,770	156,457
% of genome contig hits	11%	61%
Total length of genome contig hits	202 Mb	608 Mb
% of total length genome contig hits	26%	79%
Number of unique gene hits	6,732	16,680
Total length of genome sequences anchored into chromosome-scale scaffolds	162 Mb	421 Mb
% of total length genome sequences anchored into chromosome-scale scaffolds	21%	55%
Number of unique gene anchored into chromosome-scale scaffolds	5,489	12,423