Table 1.
Genome characteristics of related apicomplexan hemoprotozoa (more information is provided in Supplementary Document S2).
| Features | Species | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. canis [BcH-CHIPZ] | B. bovis [T2Bo] | B. microti [RI] | Th. annulata [Ankara] | P. falciparum [3D7] | |
| Genome size (Mb) | 7.0 | 8.2 | 6.5 | 8.4 | 23.3 |
| # of chromosomes | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| # of scaffolds | 43 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| G + C content (%) | 45.8 | 41.5 | 36 | 32.5 | 19.4 |
| Protein coding genes | 3467 | 3706 | 3513 | 4082 | 5383 |
| Mean gene size (bp)1 | 1044 | 1503 | 1327 | 1602 | 2292 |
| % of coding regions | 51.7 | 68 | 73 | 73 | 53 |
| Gene density2 | 2020 | 2194 | 1816 | 2199 | 4374 |
1Excluding introns and UTRs; 2Genome size/number of protein coding genes.