Table 2.

Comparison of the primary genome features between M. anisopliae and other entomopathogenic fungi

Feature	M. anisopliae	M. robertsii	M. acridum	C. militaris	B. bassiana
Strain	E6	ARSEF23	CQMa102	CM01	ARSEF2860
Host-range	Broad	Broad	Locust	Broad	Broad
Sequencing plataform	454	Solexa	Solexa	454/Illumina	454/Illumina
Size (Mbp)	38.5	39.0	38.1	32.2	33.7
Coverage	19 X	100 X	107 X	147 X	76.7 X
GC content (%)	51.0	51.5	50.0	51.4	51.5
Protein-coding genes	10,817	10,582	9,849	9,684	10,366
Gene density*	280	271	259	301	308
Exons/gene	2.6	2.8	2.7	3.0	2.7
tRNA	181	141	122	136	113

M. robertsii and M. acridum data [18], as well from B. bassiana[19] and C. militaris[22] were collected from the respectives references.

*Genes per Mbp.