Table 1. Comparison of genome features of all human-infective Plasmodium species and P. malariae-like.

Feature	P. malariae	P. malariae-like	P. ovale curtisi	P. ovale wallikeri	P. falciparum	P. knowlesi	P. vivax
Genome size (Mb)	33.6	23.7	33.5	33.5	23.3	24.4	29.1
Scaffoldsa	14 (47)	14 (36)	14 (638)	14 (771)	14 (0)	14 (297)	14 (226)
Gaps	0	3697	894	1264	0	98	560
GC content	0.24	0.30	0.29	0.29	0.19	0.39	0.40
Gene Number*	6,540	4,764**	7,132	7,052**	5,429	5,291	6,642
Pseudogenes	623	N/A	494	N/A	153	7	154
pir	255	4	1,949	1,375	227	70	1,212
var	0	0	0	0	103	0	0
SICAvar	0	0	0	0	0	237	0
STP1	166	2	70	94	0	0	9
tryptophan-rich antigen	42	7	41	33	3	29	40
ETRAMP	8	4	7	11	15	10	10
PHIST	30	3	54	21	81	44	82
fam-lb	396	0	0	0	0	0	0
fam-mb	283	1	0	0	0	0	0
Nucleotide Diversity	3.2 × 10−4	6.5 × 10−3	1.9 × 10−4	3.7 × 10−4	5.7 × 10−4	N/A	9.9 × 10−4

^*including pseudogenes and partial genes, excluding non-coding RNA genes.

^**Non-curated gene-models.

^aUnassigned contigs indicated in parentheses.

^bPreviously included in the Pm-fam-a family⁷, which consisted of all unannotated transmembrane-containing genes.