Table I. Plastid genome features of diverse nonphotosynthetic algae.
| Species | GenBank Accession No. | Size | Protein-Coding Genes | Coding DNAa | AT-Coding Regions | AT-Noncoding Regions | Average Intergenic Distanceb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kb | % | % | % | bp | |||
| Polytoma uvella | KX828177.1 (this work) | ∼230 | 25 | 26.8 | 64.4 | 80.8 | 2,967 |
| Prototheca wickerhamiic | KJ001761.1 | 55.6 | 40 | 83.17 | 66 | 82.7 | 134.6 |
| Helicosporidium sp.c | NC_008100.1 | 37.4 | 26 | 95.2 | 72.4 | 86.7 | 34.2 |
| Euglena longa | NC_002652.1 | 73.3 | 46 | 84.5 | 76.1 | 85.4 | 136.45 |
| Choreocolax polysiphoniaec | NC_026522.1 | 90.2 | 71 | 70.5 | 75.7 | 88.8 | 272 |
| Cryptomonas paramecium | NC_013703.1 | 77.7 | 82 | 87.7 | 60.7 | 70 | 84.3 |
| Plasmodium falciparumc | LN999985.1 | 34.2 | 30 | 95.8 | 85.4 | 94 | 21.6 |
| Eimeria tenellac | NC_004823.1 | 34.7 | 28 | 94.5 | 78.6 | 93.3 | 29.9 |
a
The percentage of coding DNA includes intronic regions, tRNA, and rRNA genes.
b
tRNA- and rRNA-coding regions were considered as genes in our calculations of intergenic distances.
c
Parasitic or pathogenic species.